Subject: Re: What common name for Brassica rapa?
From: [email-masked] (Matti Haack)
Date: 10 Jul 1994 15:27:00 +0200
Newsgroups: bionet.plants

> In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Dr
> >S T May) writes: Oil seed rape is not Brassica rapa....it is Brassica napus
>
> I bow to (anyone's) superior knowledge - but it seems strange that "rapa"
> should not be the source of the name "rape".

Rape is Brassica napus ! (Schmeil-Fitschen/Flora von Deutschland)
Brassica rapa L. is in German called "Rübsen" or "Stoppelrübe"
Brassica nigra id called "Senf-Kohl" or "Schwarzer Senf" (black mostard)

Sorry that I couldn`t give you the right englich name...

  ciao.
   Matti.

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