Pic(k) of the Week: Rapeseed stalk

A stalk of rapeseed (Brassica napus) blooms in Decatur’s Kitchen Garden —an immigrant-operated community garden— in Decatur, Georgia, USA. 16 April 2021.

In the cabbage family, rapeseed is the plant from which the vegetable cooking-oil, canola (an adman's portmanteau of 'Canada' and 'ola', the latter itself meaning 'oil, low acid'), is extracted. ^* The re-name may have seemed more, err, palatable.

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• ^* The name for rapeseed comes from the Latin word rapum meaning turnip. Canada is the world's largest producer of rapeseed oil. In the EU, canola oil is extensively used as biodiesel fuel; in China, rapeseed meal is used as agricultural fertilizer. (Wikipedia)


• Pic(k) of the Week: one in a weekly series of images posted on Saturdays, and occasionally, but not always (as is the case today), with a good fermentable as the subject.
• Photo 22 of 52, for year 2021. See it on Flickr: here.
• Camera: Olympus OM-D E-M10 II.
  • Lens: Olympus M.40-150mm F4.0-5.6 R
  • Settings: 150 mm | 1/500 | ISO 200 | f/5.6
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