Damn, xkcd AND botany jokes?? I’m in heaven
Wait until they learn about nightshade
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.
but they won’t really breed.
Which means no tomacco.
Huh, TIL
Don’t forget canola.
Selection for seeds
wait turnips are a brassica too? :O
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.
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.
They don’t taste like mustard
They’re all mustard, so technically they do.
Touchẽ
Sometimes my sprouts and cabbage will taste hot/peppery/horseradish-y.
Raw cauliflower too
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”?
the stem is sweet, I eat kohlrabi like apples (after removing the peel).
Also nice sliced and pickled.
My dog
I thought broccoli was Brassica Oleracea?
