Author(s):

Vaishnavi, Radhna Gupta and Preeti Choudhary

Abstract: The aim of this study was to determine the botanical description of garden cress (Lepidium sativum L.) plant and the physical characteristics of its seeds. Garden cress (Lepidium sativum) is an annual, fast growing edible herbaceous plant that belongs to Brassicaceae family and therefore has properties very much similar to mustard and watercress as information of physical properties of plant and its seeds is very useful in designing equipments for harvesting, storage of grains, sorting, sizing, processing and other post-harvest operations so, Botanical description of garden cress plant was studied this fast-growing plant grow up to a height of 50 cm had small sized, white to pinkish flowers and crop can grow easily using less equipment’s facilities. The Physical properties i.e. colour, shape, taste, dimension (length, width, and thickness), bulk density, true density, porosity, sphericity, angle of repose and 1000 grain weight were measured. The seeds were very small in size and shape as evident from their dimensions as length, width and thickness were recorded as 2.60 mm, 1.20 mm and 0.94 mm respectively. Bulk density, true density and porosity were observed as 729.74 kg/m³, 1230 kg/m³ and 40.67 percent respectively.

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