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Brassica campestris

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Name

Identification
Brassica campestris L. [family BRASSICACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Brassica campestris
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  • Brassica oleaceea
  • Brassica napus
  • Brassica trilocularis
  • Brassica indet.
  • Brassica rapa
  • Caulanthus sulfureus
Common name
  • rapeseed, Flora of North America Vol. 7
  • wild-turnip, Flora of North America Vol. 7
  • turnip, Flora of North America Vol. 7
  • wild-rape, Flora of North America Vol. 7
  • Bird-rape, Flora of North America Vol. 7
  • field-mustard, Flora of North America Vol. 7
  • canola, Flora of North America Vol. 7
  • field mustard., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1
  • turnip-rape, Flora of North America Vol. 7

Flora

Entry for BRASSICA campestris Linn. [family CRUCIFERAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 1, page 55, (1868) Author: (by Prof. Oliver).
Names
BRASSICA campestris Linn. [family CRUCIFERAE], DC. Syst. Veg. ii. 588.
BRASSICA amplexicaulis Hochst. [family CRUCIFERAE], Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 23.
Information
Erect glabrous or slightly hispid-pilose below, often glaucescent. Lower leaves lyrate-pinnatifid, upper ovate-lanceolate, sinuate-dentate, amplexicaul. Siliquas erect or ascending, on pedicels of 1/3–1 in.; valves with median and laterally anastomosing nerves; beak long, straight, half as long as the valves.
Range
Throughout Europe and greater part of Asia.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper!
Notes
The Turnip and Colza are cultivated varieties. Nearly allied is B. oleracea, the type of the cultivated Cabbage and its innumerable varieties. Cultivated in Abyssinia. It differs from B. campestris in its upper leaves, which are not auricled though sessile, and, usually, in the shorter beak of the fruit.

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