Brassica napus

Annuals or biennials; (taproot slender or swollen); (glaucous), glabrous, glabrescent, or pubescent, (trichomes coarse). Stems branched distally, 3–13 dm. Basal leaves (rosulate when biennial); petiole (often winged), to 15 cm; blade lyrate-pinnatifid, ± pinnately lobed, 5–25(–40) cm × 20–70(–100) mm, lobes 0–6 each side, (smaller than terminal), surfaces (glaucous), glabrous or sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, or, rarely, pubescent. Cauline leaves (middle and distal) sessile; blade base auriculate or amplexicaul, (margins entire). Racemes not paniculately branched, (buds overtopping or equal to open flowers). Fruiting pedicels spreading to ascending (slender), 1–3 cm. Flowers: sepals (5–)6–10 × 1.5–2.5 mm; petals golden or creamy to pale yellow, broadly obovate, 10–16 × (5–)6–9(–10) mm, claw 5–9 mm, apex rounded; filaments (5–)7–10 mm; anthers 1.5–2.5 mm. Fruits spreading to ascending, smooth or slightly torulose, terete, (3.5–)5–10(–11) cm × (2.5–)3.5–5 mm; valvular segment with 12–20(–30) seeds per locule, (3–)4–8.5(–9.5) cm, terminal segment usually seedless, rarely 1 or 2-seeded (attenuate-conic, thin), (5–)9–16 mm. Seeds dark brown to black, light brown, or reddish, 1.8–2.7(–3) mm diam.; seed coat finely reticulate-alveolate, not mucilaginous when wetted. 2n = 38.

3-6 hours of sun per day, with protection from intense mid-day sun

Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.

Brassica Napus

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