Brassica

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• halvar@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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  • Classy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Damn, xkcd AND botany jokes?? I’m in heaven

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• chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Wait until they learn about nightshade

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      but they won’t really breed.

      Which means no tomacco.

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    • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Huh, TIL

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• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Don’t forget canola.

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Selection for seeds

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• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  wait turnips are a brassica too? :O

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  • underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • binomialchicken@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Image

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• danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  They don’t taste like mustard

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  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    They’re all mustard, so technically they do.

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Touchẽ

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  • Risk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Sometimes my sprouts and cabbage will taste hot/peppery/horseradish-y.

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    • meowMix2525@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Raw cauliflower too

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• Hugin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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• ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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”?

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  • todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    My dog

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  • veganpizza69@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    the stem is sweet, I eat kohlrabi like apples (after removing the peel).

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    • MadBob@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Also nice sliced and pickled.

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• Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I thought broccoli was Brassica Oleracea?

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