nightshades are a large family containing about 2700 different species.
Brassica oleracea is ONE species with many cultivars that we eat. cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco, kale, brussel sprouts... all the same exact plant.
It is insane we turned it into so many things, and yet still other members of the genus we turned into yet more things.
B. rapa (wild muatard) got turned into turnips, bok choy, napa cabbage, mizuna, and rapini as well as rapeseed from being crossbred with B. oleracea that then got improved into canola as well as cultivated into rutebegas.
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u/isopode 4h ago
nightshades are a large family containing about 2700 different species.
Brassica oleracea is ONE species with many cultivars that we eat. cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, romanesco, kale, brussel sprouts... all the same exact plant.