what is a brassica
For the Cockney rhyming slang brassic (penniless), see Boracic lint. Brassica (/ËbrÃ¦sáµ»kÉ/) is a genus of plants in the mustard family, the (Brassicaceae). The members of the genus are informally known as cruciferous vegetables, cabbages, or mustard plants. Crops from this genus are sometimes called cole cropsâderived from the Latin caulis, denoting the stem or stalk of a plant.