Re: Mustard seed?

Brassica nigra is the wild one that grows in fields and hedge-rows.
The garden varieties are B. juncea.  I grow a green one that some
catalogs list as Southern Giant Curled, and a red one that is
sometimes called Red Indian Mustard, and sometimes just Red
Giant.  Both reseed readily, so I always let a few go to seed, and
only have to buy seeds every five years or so.
The yellow seed in your necklace was what these seeds look 
like.  Also the yellow seeds you see in the bottom of a pickle
bottle.  
The Biblical mustard was probably a different genus altogether,
since these plants don't answer the description, either.  Mustard
makes a plant more similar to collards or kale.
Thanks for looking, anyway.

In a message dated 06/18/2006 11:21:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
kmrsy@comcast.net writes:
Geez Auralie, I thought that would be an easy one.  Just google parable 
mustard seed botanical name.  Lots of religious discussions trying to 
disclaim scientific discussions about the size of the seed, but none 
bothered to name it.  RHS lists 27 genera that use the name mustard.  I'm 
guessing it's a Brassica, though I admit I'm apallingly unknowledgable when 
it comes to food plants.  Perhaps B. nigra, B. hirta, or B.alba. You didn't 
say which mustard you grow in your garden so I can't say if it might be the 
same.

Many years ago I had a necklace that supposedly contained a mustard seed. 
The seed was large by comparison to seeds I've grown and it was yellow.

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