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[Half True; see linked comment] BRASSICAS (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Always has been.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

How? Like... literally how?

I grow kale and it looks nothing like the plant in the OP. It looks like a regular bunch of kale.

Or is this like "all 6 vegetables come from one main vegetable", kind of like how all citrus fruits comes from citron.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

kind of like how all citrus fruits comes from citron.

This is what happened

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

No, it's cooler than that! All these vegetables are cultivars of the same species (Brassica oleracea). Citrus trees are different species with common origins.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Citron broke my brain. If you're telling me this is mustard and only mustard, my brain might just die in confusion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Relevant xkcd (my first time posting an image - fingers crossed)

https://xkcd.com/2827/

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Artificial selection!

If you think that’s amazing - look up what bananas looked like before human cultivation. Basically any fruit or vegetable you eat is the product of centuries of humans carefully selecting what seeds to save and plant.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

My wife and I had fried plantains at a Venezuelan restaurant a couple weeks ago. That shit was absolutely divine with beans, rice, meat, and a fried egg on top.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Just like dog breeds look very distinct, but cranked up to eleven with horrible deformities. Imagine if we continued to breed chihuahuas to have bigger heads and smaller bodies until they are 90% head. Or breed a breed of hound to be smaller with increasingly bigger ears until it's 90% ears. They would still be dogs of the same species because they can procreate together.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Its exactly like that.