Wait until they learn about nightshade
Brassica
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chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 year ago
roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 year 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 year ago
but they won’t really breed.
Which means no tomacco.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Huh, TIL
ikidd@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t forget canola.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 1 year ago
Selection for seeds
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
wait turnips are a brassica too? :O
underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year 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 year ago
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They don’t taste like mustard
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 year ago
They’re all mustard, so technically they do.
danc4498@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Touchẽ
Risk@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Sometimes my sprouts and cabbage will taste hot/peppery/horseradish-y.
meowMix2525@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Raw cauliflower too
Hugin@lemmy.world 1 year 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 year 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 year ago
My dog
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 1 year ago
the stem is sweet, I eat kohlrabi like apples (after removing the peel).
MadBob@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Also nice sliced and pickled.
Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
I thought broccoli was Brassica Oleracea?
halvar@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Classy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Damn, xkcd AND botany jokes?? I’m in heaven