Mustard in rural aliases
Mustard is Cruciferae, Brassica genus of annual herbaceous plants, can be fried and eaten, but also can be made pickles, mustard, also known as snow cabbage, its aliases are covered vegetables, mustard, hanging vegetables, mustard pimples.
Mustard greens are very common in rural areas, in rural areas called it spicy lumps, snowy greens, mustard lumps, mustard spicy, mustard head, snowy red, big head of cabbage, etc. Mustard greens in Sichuan is called caper,,, big head of cabbage grandmother vegetables and bok choy, in the north is called caper, in Xinjiang called mustard lumps.
Mustard origin
Mustard grows in cool and moist places, usually in the ground, in the countryside is usually their own in the yard at home, or in the field inside the plant, now the wild mustard is very little.
Mustard in China's provinces and regions have planting distribution, in the area south of the Yangtze River planting is the most, mustard spring, summer, autumn three seasons can be planted, mainly in the fall concentrated planting.
Mustard look
Mustard varieties are potherb mustard, squash, big head lettuce, oil mustard, big leaf mustard, wrinkled leaf mustard, Shuidong mustard, mustard leaves are relatively large is broadly ovate and obovate, it's stalks are relatively high, the surface of the powder frost, mustard eat a little bit spicy flavor.