[Sca-cooks] Food Origins

[Decker, Terry D.]

You are correct, I made the error looking at Chinese cabbage, a name that is
used for both Napa cabbage and bok choy.

However, bok choy and Napa cabbage are variants of the same species,
Brassica rapa.  Napa cabbage is B. rapa var. pekinensis, bok choy is B. rapa
var. Chinensis.  It is very probable they can be interbred.

Bear


> Um, Napa Cabbage is not bok choy, it is sio choy...
>
> Napa has a wide, white stalk with a very pale green, almost white,
> very convoluted leaf, and bok toy has a somewhat narrower stalk, with
> a less convoluted, spinachy leaf, and looks quite a lot like Swiss
> Chard, actually.
>
> Are they supposed to be cultivars of the same species?
>
> Adamantius