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Iberis intermedia Guers.

candytuft

Brassicaceae Herb

Accumulation profile

Tl Thallium Facultative

4,000 µg g⁻¹ DW

40× the thallium threshold

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Substrate

Thallium/zinc mineralised soils

Habitat

Mineralised outcrops

Distribution

Southern France

First reported

1999 · Leblanc et al.

Verification

review-cited

Description & ecology

A second French thallium accumulator, trialled alongside Biscutella for recovering thallium from mineralised soils.

References

1. Reeves, R. D., Baker, A. J. M., Jaffré, T., Erskine, P. D., Echevarria, G., & van der Ent, A. (2018). A global database for plants that hyperaccumulate metal and metalloid trace elements. New Phytologist, 218, 407–411. doi:10.1111/nph.14907 APA BibTeX RIS

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