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Colza Oil is an oil formerly much employed for burning in lamps, and for many other purposes. It is expressed from the seeds of Brassica campestris oleifera, and from allied plants of the cabbage family. It is yellowish-brown, and has little or no smell. It becomes thick and solid only at very low temperatures.
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Black mustard (Brassica nigra) is an erect, branching cruciferous annual with slender stems. The lower leaves are bristly, pinnately cut, the terminal lobe much larger than the others. The flowers are small and yellow and carried at the stem-tips. The fruit is a small, very slender, beaked siliquae pressed against the stems.
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Borecole is a variety of Brassica oleracea, a cabbage with the leaves curled or wrinkled, and having no disposition to form into a hard head.
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Brassica is a large genus of cruciferous plants which includes the cabbage and turnip. They are natives of Europe, north and central Asia.
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Brussels Sprouts (Sprouts) are one of the cultivated varieties of cabbage (Brassica oleracea). They have an elongated stem which grows to about 150 centimetres high with small clustered green heads like miniature cabbages. They get their name from being cultivated in great numbers near Brussels since 1213.
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Cabbage (Brassica oleracea and other species) is a hardy biennial vegetable of the family Cruciferae, allied to the turnip and the wild charlock. It is an important table vegetable and numerous varieties are cultivated.
The wild cabbage is a native of the coasts of Britain, but is much more common on other European shores. The kinds most cultivated are the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea), the savoy, the broccoli, and the cauliflower. The common cabbage forms its leaves into heads or bolls, the inner leaves being blanched. Its varieties are the white, the red or purple, the tree or cow cabbage for cattle (branching and growing when in flower to the height of three meters), and the very delicate Portugal cabbage. The garden sorts form valuable culinary vegetables, and are used at table in various ways.
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Kohl-rabi (Brassica caulorapa) is a plant of the cabbage family, largely cultivated on account of its swollen, fleshy, turnip-like stem which is eaten.
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Mustard is the name of several annual plants of the Cruciferae family, including white mustard (Sinapis alba), black mustard (Brassica nigra), wild mustard or charlock (Sinapis arvensis) and brown mustard (Brassica juncea). The mustards are bristly branching plants ranging from 30 cm to one metre in height, with variously lobed leaves, yellow flowers and long rounded seed pods. In the black mustard the seed pods stand erect and close to the stem. In the other species the pods stand out from the stem, and the seeds which in charlock are brown are yellow in white mustard. The seeds of the black mustard and white mustard are ground and mixed and used commercially as a flavouring.
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The Swede or Swedish turnip (Brassica campestris) is a biennial cruciferous plant of the same genus as cabbage, rape and kale. The root is hard, yellow, crisp, and sweet-tasting and is eaten as a vegetable.
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The common turnip (Brassica rapa) is a biennial cruciferous plant of the same genus as cabbage with a fleshy globular or spheroidal root, toothed leaves, and yellow flowers. The turnip is native to Britain where it occurs as a common weed and is cultivated for food, the root of the turnip being used as a vegetable and also fed to cattle and sheep.
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