Chinese name: turnip [wú jīng], cranberry [mán jīng] (can not read màn, wàn )[1]
English name: turnip
Alias: cranberries, zhujie, big head of cabbage, round vegetable head, round root, panchayat, bryuk
Scientific name: Brassica rapa Linn. var. rapa
Distribution: Native to Europe, now cultivated in Europe, Asia and America.
Classification: Cruciferae, Brassica rapa, turnip (species), var. rapa
Varieties: Golden bell turnip, Tokyo small turnip, Kanamachi turnip
Type: appearance similar to radish, plant height of about 20 to 50 centimeters, the ground has a round or elliptic taproot, the small varieties of only a few tens of grams, the large varieties of up to 10 kg or more. Leaves have pinnately compound or spatulate lobed leaves, with coarse hairs, flowers terminal, corolla yellow, root skin with white, light green or purple.
Use: edible vegetables, fat fleshy roots for food, per 100 grams of fresh weight containing 87 to 95 grams of water, sugar 3.8 to 6.4 grams, 0.4 to 2.1 grams of crude protein, 0.8 to 2.0 grams of cellulose, vitamin C 19.2 to 63.3 mg, as well as other mineral salts. The fleshy root is tender and dense for frying, boiling or pickling.
Mustard Lumps
Brassica napiformis (Paill. & Bois) L. H. Bailey (Beijing), also called mustard, jade root (Liaoning), is a species of mustard in the family Cruciferae, under the genus Brassica. The tubers are salted or sauced for consumption; they are cut into fine julienne strips with radish and eaten as a spicy vegetable.
Biennial herb, 60-150 cm tall, glabrous throughout, slightly pruinose; caudex conical, 7-10 cm in diam., half above ground, with white skin, root
Pimple root of pimple
fleshy, white or yellow, with spicy flavor, half underground, with 1 longitudinal groove on each side, bearing fibrous roots in the longitudinal grooves; stem erect, branched from 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, the margins irregularly cuspidate-toothed, the base with 2 conspicuous lateral lobes and several lobules, sparsely so; petiole 3-4.5 cm long; cauline leaves similar to the basal leaves, 5-12 cm long; the upper cauline leaves oblong-lanceolate, subentire or entire Stem leaves oblong-lanceolate, subentire or entire, sessile or slightly clasping. Flowers pale yellow, 7-8 mm in diam.; 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 pedicel 5-8 mm long. Seeds globose, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., black-brown, finely reticulate. Fl. April-May, fr. May-June.