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Because of their tough composition, turnips make excellent ingredients for hearty winter soups, stews and more. Related: 54 Best Carrot Recipes How to Cook Turnips
Pediomelum esculentum, synonym Psoralea esculenta, [2] common name prairie turnip or timpsula, is an herbaceous perennial plant native to prairies and dry woodlands of central North America, which bears a starchy tuberous root edible as a root vegetable.
A bunch of Hakurei turnips. The most common type of turnip is mostly white-skinned, apart from the upper 1 to 6 centimetres (1 ⁄ 2 to 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches), which protrude above the ground and are purple or red or greenish where the sun has hit. This above-ground part develops from stem tissue but is fused with the root.
Turnips, a taproot. Taproot (some types may incorporate substantial hypocotyl tissue) Arracacia xanthorrhiza (arracacha) Beta vulgaris (beet and mangelwurzel) Brassica spp. (kohlrabi, rutabaga and turnip) Bunium persicum (black cumin) Burdock (Arctium, family Asteraceae) Carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) Celeriac (Apium graveolens rapaceum)
Edible turnips were possibly first cultivated in northern Europe, and were an important food in ancient Rome. [11] The turnip then spread east to China, and reached Japan by 700 AD. [11] In the 18th century, the turnip and the oilseed-producing variants were thought to be different species by Carl Linnaeus, who named them B. rapa and B. campestris.
Pachyrhizus erosus, commonly known as jícama (/ ˈ h ɪ k ə m ə / or / dʒ ɪ ˈ k ɑː m ə /; [1] Spanish jícama ⓘ; from Nahuatl xīcamatl, [ʃiːˈkamatɬ]) or Mexican turnip, is a native Mesoamerican vine, although the name jícama most commonly refers to the plant's edible tuberous root.
The name Arisaema triphyllum (L.) Schott is widely used today despite a taxonomic disruption that prevailed during the second half of the twentieth century. By 1903, four additional species of Arisaema in eastern North America had been described: Arisaema acuminatum Small , Arisaema pusillum (Peck) Nash , Arisaema quinatum (Nutt.)
In the Middle Ages, rowdy bands of children roamed the streets in masks carrying carved turnips known in Scotland as "tumshie heads". [38] [39] In modern times, turnips are often carved to look as sinister and threatening as possible and are put in the window or on the doorstep of a house on Halloween to ward off evil spirits. [40] [41]