Cabbage Flowers
While the genus Brassica is the most culinarily important
genus of Brassicaceae, there are others that figure in our enjoyment
of food. .
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General & HistoryMost cabbages have sparce groups of slightly bitter flowers on fleshy stems, but plant breeders have coaxed some into producing huge densely packed flower heads which are highly edible when immature. If they are allowed to mature and open they become bitter. VarietiesArugula - See Rocket. Horeseradish - [Aroracia Armoracia
rusticana]
Rocket -
Watercress -
[Nasturtium nasturtium-aquaticum, Nasturtium microphyllum]
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