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Brassica (mander.xyz)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 72 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wait until they learn about nightshade

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

The nightshades are at least different species. Their vascular system and general physiology is similar enough that your can graft a potato, tomato, pepper, and tobacco plant together for a full meal and after dinner smoke, but they won't really breed. Cabbage and broccoli can and will cross pollinate.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

but they won’t really breed.

Which means no tomacco.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Huh, TIL

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget canola.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Selection for seeds

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

wait turnips are a brassica too? :O

[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (2 children)

They don’t taste like mustard

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They're all mustard, so technically they do.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 months ago

Touchẽ

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Raw cauliflower too

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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"?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

My dog

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Also nice sliced and pickled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I thought broccoli was Brassica Oleracea?