The turnip is a herbaceous Plante of the family of the Brassicacée S, cultivated like Vegetable for its fleshy root, consumed like Légume. The term indicates also this vegetable.
Scientific name: Brassica grated L. subsp. grated , family of the Brassicacée S (Crucifère S), subfamily of the Brassicoideae .
Common nouns: turnip, naveau, turnip. of: Herbstrübe, in: turnip, be: nabo colza.
The turnip is a bi-annual herbaceous plant which emits a 80 height cm floral stem approximately the second year. The sheets are whole, oblong, the flowers are yellow. The root is fleshy and very variable in its form: spherical, lengthened, punt…, and in its color: pale yellow, white, black, two-tone pink-white…
Principal cultivated varieties
Turnips vegetables
- Yellow gold ball
- Long black of Demi-long Caluire
- of Round Croissy
- of White Croissy
- of Milan
- Of the virtues Yellow hammer
- of Scotland
- Snowball
- Of Nancy with red collet
- Red hasty dish with whole sheets
- Turnip of hasty Auvergne with red collet
Fodder turnips
Use
The roots constitute a Légume which is eaten cooked (jumped, gratiné, out of mashed potatoes…) out of flower stand, in accompaniment of meat dishes or to scent Soup S.It is a vegetable rich in Potassium which occupied a long time a very great place in the supply Europe, but which was somewhat détrôné by the Potato. It is often décrié for its insipidity.
Receipt: the Duck with the turnips
The fodder turnips are used in animal feeds.
External bonds
- the turnip of Pardailhan
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