EPPO Global Database

Brassica rapa(BRSRR)

Overview
Code created in: 2004-04-10

Basic information
  • EPPO Code: BRSRR
  • Preferred name: Brassica rapa
  • Authority: Linnaeus

Notes

This is the plant developed in cultivation as the root vegetable turnip, considered as var. rapa. The wild species is var. sylvestris (q.v.). It has also given rise, in cultivation, to leaf vegetable, forage and oilseed crops, considered as separate botanical varieties of B. rapa (q.v.), and introduced worldwide.

Genome sequence published in 2011.


Other scientific names
Name Authority
Brassica campestris subsp. rapifera (Metzger) Sinskaya
Brassica campestris var. rapifera Metzger
Brassica rapa subsp. rapa Linnaeus

Common names
Name Language
forage turnip English
garden turnip English
turnip English
Rübe German
Stoppelrübe German
Wasserrübe German
weiße Rübe German
chou rave French
navet French
rave French
nabo Spanish
nabo gallego Spanish
rapa Italian
rapa coltivata Italian
rapa da forraggio Italian
lange raap Dutch
stoppelknol Dutch
witte raap Dutch
nabo Portuguese
nabo-ordinário Portuguese
nabo-peludo Portuguese
nabo-redondo Portuguese
turnepo Portuguese
rova Swedish
hanana Japanese
kabu Japanese
nabana Japanese
nanohana Japanese
カブ Japanese
ナノハナ Japanese
ナバナ Japanese
ハナナ Japanese
капуста полевая Russian
репа Russian
репа огородная Russian
турнепс Russian
majroe Danish
åkerkål Norwegian
peltokaali Finnish
şalgam Turkish
kapusta właśiwa Polish
rwepa właśiwa Polish
tarlórépa Hungarian
lakër Albanian
لفت المحفور Arabic
arbi Basque
бяла ряпа Bulgarian
турнипс Bulgarian
col rave Catalan
gruixuda Catalan
rel napiforme Catalan
mán jīng Chinese
蔓菁 Chinese
rukev řepák Czech
vodnice Czech
naerishein Estonian
põld-kapsasrohi Estonian
shalagam Hindi
शलगम Hindi
tornapa fiáin Irish
순무 Korean
sun mu Korean
lauku rācenis Latvian
dirvinis bastutis Lithuanian
ropės Lithuanian
arrabe Occitan
nap Romanian
rapiţă-de-câmp Romanian
oljna repica Slovene
repa Slovene
ріпа Ukrainian
турнепс Ukrainian
meipen Welsh