What is "camelina sativa"

gold-of-pleasure \gold-of-pleasure\ n. (Bot.) An annual European false flax ( Camelina sativa) having small white flowers; cultivated since Neolithic times as a source of fiber and for its oil-rich seeds; widely naturalized in North America.

Syn: gold of pleasure, Camelina sativa.

Oilseed \Oil"seed`\, n. (Bot.)

1. Seed from which oil is expressed, as the castor bean; also, the plant yielding such seed. See Castor bean.

2. A cruciferous herb ( Camelina sativa).

3. The sesame.

Camelina sativa is a flowering plant in the family Brassicaceae and is usually known in English as camelina, gold-of-pleasure, or false flax, also occasionally wild flax, linseed dodder, German sesame, and Siberian oilseed. It is native to Europe and to Central Asian areas. This plant is cultivated as oilseed crop mainly in Europe and in North America.