Wait until they learn about nightshade
Brassica
Submitted 7 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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chuckleslord@lemmy.world 7 months ago
roguetrick@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months ago
but they won’t really breed.
Which means no tomacco.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Huh, TIL
ikidd@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Don’t forget canola.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
Selection for seeds
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
wait turnips are a brassica too? :O
underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months 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 7 months ago
danc4498@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They don’t taste like mustard
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 7 months ago
They’re all mustard, so technically they do.
danc4498@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Touchẽ
Risk@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Sometimes my sprouts and cabbage will taste hot/peppery/horseradish-y.
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Raw cauliflower too
Hugin@lemmy.world 7 months 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 7 months 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 7 months ago
My dog
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 7 months ago
the stem is sweet, I eat kohlrabi like apples (after removing the peel).
MadBob@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Also nice sliced and pickled.
Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
I thought broccoli was Brassica Oleracea?
halvar@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Classy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Damn, xkcd AND botany jokes?? I’m in heaven