The Cranberry Turnip, in Taobao category is: Food - Vegetables.
Turnip, is a biennial herb of the genus Brassica.
Turnip, is up to 100 cm high; tuberous roots fleshy, spherical, oblate or oblong, the outer skin white, yellow or red, root fleshy white or yellow, non-spicy flavor; stems erect, branched, slightly hairy in the lower part, the upper part of the hairless.
Basal leaves lyrate or compound, 20 to 34 centimeters long, terminal lobe or leaflet very large, margin undulate or lobed, lateral lobes or leaflets about 5 pairs, tapering downward, with a few scattered prickly hairs above and white sharp prickly hairs below; petiole 10 to 16 centimeters long, with small lobes; middle and upper stem leaves oblong-lanceolate, 3 to 12 centimeters long, glabrous, pruinose, base broadly cordate lanceolate, at least half-amplexicaul, sessile.
Racemes terminal; flowers 4 to 5 mm in diameter; pedicels 10 to 15 mm long; sepals oblong, 4 to 6 mm long; petals bright yellow, oblanceolate, 4 to 8 mm long, shortly clawed.
Long-horned fruit linear, 3.5 to 8 centimeters long, petals with 1 conspicuous midvein; beak 10 to 20 millimeters long; fruiting pedicel up to 3 centimeters long. Seeds globose, ca. 1.8 mm in diam., light yellow-brown, black near the umbilicus, with finely reticulate areoles. Fl. March to April, fr. May to June.
Turnip Main Values
Turnip Edible
The tuberous roots are cooked and eaten or used to make sauerkraut, or used as fodder. Alpine mountainous areas are used to replace grain.
Turnips are edible vegetables, fat fleshy roots for food. As well as other mineral salts, tender, dense, for frying, cooking or pickling. The roots as well as the leaves of the turnip are edible.?
Medicinal use
The turnip flower is pungent and bitter in taste, flat and non-toxic in nature, with the effect of ear, smart eyes and light body, and the juice is taken by adding water to boil it, which can get rid of the accumulation of plaque in the abdomen, and a small amount of it can be taken to cure the bloating of the chest and abdomen caused by cholera.
Turnip leaves are bitter in flavor, warm in nature, non-toxic, and have the effect of benefiting the five viscera, ear, smart eyes, light body, which can make people's skin rosy and glossy, energetic, anti-aging, beneficial to the qi, and often eat to pass the middle jiao, make people strong. The main treatment for weakness, fatigue, poor eyesight.