Field mustard
பிராசிகா இராபாകനോല
Brassica rapa L.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- —
- tall
- 90 cm
- wide
- —
Brassicaceae
Also called Common mustard, Wild turnip
Formerly Barbarea derchiensis, Brassica amplexicaulis, Brassica antiquorum, Brassica briggsii, and 38 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Annual or biennialKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & E. Medit. to Iran and Arabian Pen., NE. Trop. AfricaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 51 cm to 1.3 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- German
- Rübsen
- Dutch
- raapzaad, Raapzaad
- Slovenian
- oljna repica, repa
- Chinese
- 芜菁, 芜菁子, 芜菁花
- Asturian
- nabu
- Czech
- brukev řepák
- Finnish
- satokaali
- French
- navette dété
- Simplified Chinese
- 变萝卜, 圆根, 芜菁
- Traditional Chinese
- 蕪菁
- Tamil
- பிராசிகா இராபா
- Malayalam
- കനോല
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Brassica rapa (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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