What Is the Scientific Name Of Mustard? (ANSWERS)
SCIENTIFIC NAME OF MUSTARD – In this topic, we are going to know about the scientific name of mustard or known locally as mustasa.
We are going to refer to brown mustard in this case.
Also known as Chinese mustard, Indian mustard, leaf mustard, Oriental mustard and vegetable mustard, it is a mustard plant species.
Its cultivars are divided into four subgroups:
- Integrifolia
- leaf mustard
- cut-leaf mustard
- large-petiole mustard
- head mustard
- Juncea
- oil-seed mustard
- Napiformis
- root mustard
- Tsatsai
- multishoot mustard
- big-stem mustard
This mustard has edible leaves, seeds, and stems. It appears in the same form in cuisines in the following areas:
- Africa
- Bangladesh
- China
- Italy
- India
- Japan
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Korea
- Africa-America
Mustard is also grown as a green manure where is is used to act as a mulch, covering the soil to suppress weeds between crops.
Scientific Name
The binomial name of radish is Brassica juncea.
Brassica is a genus of the mustard family Brassicaceae which are known as cruciferous vegetables, cabbages, or mustard plants. It is a modern Latin term which means “cabbage”.
The species name juncea, on the other hand, is Latin for the word “rush-like”.