A plant genus of the family Cruciferae. It contains many species and cultivars used as food including cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, Brussel sprouts, kale, collard greens, MUSTARD PLANT; (B. alba, B. junica, and B. nigra), turnips (BRASSICA NAPUS) and rapeseed (BRASSICA RAPA).
    

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Brassica adpressa Bois: flowering stem with separate leaf. Coloured engraving after F. von Scheidl, 1772.

A cabbage plant (Brassica oleracea) with an associated moth or butterfly and its anatomical segments. Coloured etching, c. 1831.

Turnip (Brassica rapa): root and leaves. Watercolour.

Cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. capitata L.): large leafy head with separate flowering stem, opened fruit and seeds. Coloured etching by M. Bouchard, 177-.

Six flowering plants, all with a different type of compound inflorescence. Chromolithograph, c. 1850.

Cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.).

Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.

A cultivar of garden pea (Pisum sativum) and of variegated kale (Brassica oleracea acephala). Chromolithograph, c. 1890.

Rape (Brassica napus): flowering stem, leaf and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1810.

Materialy k voprosu o pitatel'nosti kvashenoi kapusty (istinnye bielki i usvoiaemost') : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / I.I. Piontkovskago ; tsenzorami dissertatsii, po porucheniiu Konferentsii, kyli professory V.A. Manassein, A.F. Batalin i privat-dotsent S.K. Shidlovskii.

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Cabbage (Brassica oleracea L.).

Sailing ships at sea, turnip-like plants found in northern Russia and the Samoyed people with their tents and boats, in separate plates. Engraving after C. de Bruin, 1701.

A cultivar of garden pea (Pisum sativum) and of variegated kale (Brassica oleracea acephala). Chromolithograph, c. 1890.

Rape (Brassica napus): flowering stem, leaf and floral segments. Coloured engraving after J. Sowerby, 1810.

Materialy k voprosu o pitatel'nosti kvashenoi kapusty (istinnye bielki i usvoiaemost') : dissertatsiia na stepen' doktora meditsiny / I.I. Piontkovskago ; tsenzorami dissertatsii, po porucheniiu Konferentsii, kyli professory V.A. Manassein, A.F. Batalin i privat-dotsent S.K. Shidlovskii.