Wait until they learn about nightshade
Brassica
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chuckleslord@lemmy.world 10 months ago
roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 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 10 months ago
but they won’t really breed.
Which means no tomacco.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Huh, TIL
ikidd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t forget canola.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Selection for seeds
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
wait turnips are a brassica too? :O
underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 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 10 months ago
danc4498@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They don’t taste like mustard
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 10 months ago
They’re all mustard, so technically they do.
danc4498@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Touchẽ
Risk@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Sometimes my sprouts and cabbage will taste hot/peppery/horseradish-y.
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Raw cauliflower too
Hugin@lemmy.world 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
My dog
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 10 months ago
the stem is sweet, I eat kohlrabi like apples (after removing the peel).
MadBob@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Also nice sliced and pickled.
Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I thought broccoli was Brassica Oleracea?
halvar@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Classy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Damn, xkcd AND botany jokes?? I’m in heaven