Mustard pimple scientific name: cranberry and panicle

Mustard pimple is Cruciferae, brassica genus biennial herbaceous plants.

Height up to 150 cm, the whole plant is glabrous, tuberous roots conical, outer skin white, root fleshy, white or yellow, spicy flavor, basal leaves a few, large head pinnately lobed, the top lobe of the leaf blade broadly ovate, the edge of the untidy cuspidate teeth, the stem leaves like the basal leaves, the flowers light yellow, sepals lanceolate or oblong-ovate, petals obovate, seeds spherical, black-brown, bloomed in April-May, fruiting in May-June.

It is cultivated in various provinces of China. Mustard pimples like cool and humid climate, do not tolerate frost, also do not tolerate heat, the soil is too warm or too dry are not conducive to growth.

Biennial herb, 60-150 centimeters high, glabrous throughout, slightly pruinose; root conical, 7-10 centimeters in diameter, half on the ground, the outer skin white, the root fleshy, white or yellow, with a spicy flavor, half in the ground, each side has a longitudinal groove, in the longitudinal groove of the fibrous roots; stems erect, branched from the base.

Basal leaves few, lyrate-pinnately lobed, 10-20 cm long, with a few prickly hairs on the lower veins and on the margins, at least when young, the terminal lobe broadly ovate, up to 9 cm long, rounded at the tip, with an irregularly cuspidate tooth on the margins, the base with 2 conspicuous lateral lobes and several smaller lobes, sparsely spaced.

Petiole 3-4.5 centimeters long; cauline leaves resemble basal leaves, 5-12 centimeters long; upper cauline leaves oblong-lanceolate, subentire or entire, sessile or slightly clasping.

Flowers pale yellow, 7-8 mm in diameter; sepals lanceolate or oblong-ovate, ca. 6 mm; petals obovate, 8-10 mm, apically retuse, finely clawed. Long-horned fruit linear, 3-5 cm long, slightly laterally compressed, beak conical, 5-7 mm long; fruiting peduncle 5-8 mm long.