Wait until they learn about nightshade
Brassica
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chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 week ago
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The nightshades are at least different species. Their vascular system and general physiology is similar enough that your can graft a potato, tomato, nightshade, and tobacco plant together for a full meal and after dinner smoke, but they can’t breed. Cabbage and broccoli can and will cross pollinate.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 week ago
but they won’t really breed.
Which means no tomacco.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Huh, TIL
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Don’t forget canola.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Selection for seeds
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
wait turnips are a brassica too? :O
underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
It’s not brassica oleracea though, it’s a different species, brassica rapa. The same species as napa cabbage, brocolli rabe, and bok choy. Rutabaga is actually a hybrid of the two species.
binomialchicken@lemmy.world 1 week ago
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They don’t taste like mustard
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 week ago
They’re all mustard, so technically they do.
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Touchẽ
Risk@feddit.uk 1 week ago
Sometimes my sprouts and cabbage will taste hot/peppery/horseradish-y.
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Raw cauliflower too
Hugin@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The main reason for there being so many varieties is that at some point in the past the plants genome tripled. With three copies of the genome not only was there a higher chance of mutation but a mutation didn’t deleted the original dna segment as it was in the other copies.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Kohlrabi? Like who the hell was eating broccoli and thought to themselves “boy, I sure do like this stem part a lot more than the ends”?
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 1 week ago
My dog
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 week ago
the stem is sweet, I eat kohlrabi like apples (after removing the peel).
MadBob@feddit.nl 1 week ago
Also nice sliced and pickled.
Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
I thought broccoli was Brassica Oleracea?
halvar@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Classy@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Damn, xkcd AND botany jokes?? I’m in heaven