White mustard

White mustard is an annual plant.

White mustard
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Brassicales
Family:	Brassicaceae
Genus:	Sinapis
Species:	S. alba
Binomial name
Sinapis alba

Cooking

The yellow flowers of the plant make seed pods, with each pod having a half dozen seeds. These seeds are harvested just before the pods become ripe.

White mustard seeds are hard and round, usually around 1 to 1.5 millimetres, with a color forming from beige or yellow to light brown.

In Greece, the plant's leaves can be eaten during the winter, before it blooms. Greeks call it vrouves or lapsana.

The blooming season of this plant (February–March) is celebrated in the Mustard Festival.

White Mustard Media

• Sinapis seeds.jpg

  White mustard seeds (right) compared with rice seeds (left)

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  flowers חרדל לבן

• Sinapis alba Habitus 2010-4-11 DehesaBoyalPuertollano.jpg

  Sinapis alba Habitus 2010-4-11 DehesaBoyalPuertollano

• Sinapis alba flowers

• Sinapis alba fruits IP0307031.jpg

  Fruits of Sinapis alba

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  Sinapis alba green manuring