Watermelon Radish
Raphanus sativus
The story
Originally domesticated in Asia, the radish has grown from a regional crop into a globally cultivated and consumed vegetable. Today, it is recognized worldwide both as a familiar garden radish and as a member of the mustard family, Brassicaceae.
Sources: Gbif, Inaturalist, en.wikipedia.org
- Family
- Brassicaceae
How to use it
This plant is widely cultivated as a food crop. Its large taproot is commonly harvested and used as a root vegetable, while its leaves are also utilized as an edible leaf vegetable.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
In the kitchen
The large taproot of this plant is commonly used as a root vegetable, but the entire plant is edible. You can also use the leaves in your kitchen as a leaf vegetable.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org
About
The radish is a flowering plant in the mustard family, Brassicaceae. Its large taproot is commonly used as a root vegetable, although the entire plant is edible and its leaves are sometimes used as a leaf vegetable. Originally domesticated in Asia, radishes are now grown and consumed globally. The radish is sometimes considered to form a species complex with the wild radish and instead treated as the subspecies Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus.
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Watermelon Radish
- Slug
- watermelon-radish
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Brassicaceae
- Genus
- Raphanus
- Species
- sativus
- Category
- Root
- Wikidata QID
- Q7224565
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 48
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