Talk:Lupinus luteus

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Lupinus luteus L. (Yellow lupin) occurs on mild sandy and volcanic soils in mining belts. As a wild plant, it is widespread over the coastal area in the western part of Iberian Peninsula, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria, on the islands of Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily and in southern Italy. In Israel and Lebanon it has most likely turned wild. It is cultivated in Northern Europe and CIS (Belarus and Ukraine) as well as, on a smaller scale, in Western Australia and South Africa. Having previously been cultivated in southern France and on Madeira, it has turned wild there. Usually this species is considered as an annual one, but in wild environments it is sometimes possible to find two- and four-year plants. The variability of characters in this species is less expressed than in L.angustifolius; however a homologous series can be modeled on the color of seeds, which is more or less similar to L.angustifolius. Dominating coloring of flowers is yellow or, less frequently, lemon-yellow, orange and whitish. (BK).

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Can someone translate this page into english? I never knew botanists were wanna-be physicians until I read this article!

I mean, seriously, why call a stem "hirsute"? I'd translate the article myself, except I have no clue what "stipules of the rosetted leaves are crescent and chuffy on stalks, linear-obovate in shape" is supposed to mean.