I've been thinking about how to gamify my hobby site Related How? (https://relatedhow.kodare.com/) for ages. I can't tell if this is a good way to do it, since I am so bad at plants :P
Broccoli and kale are both brassica oleracea and are included under cabbage (another cultivar of the species). It has support for aliases though, so I don't get why it doesn't use that in this case. Broccoli is my archetypal brassica and I always get hung up when it isn't there.
Brassica oleracea is such a fascinating species by the sheer number of unrecognizably different vegetables we've cultivated that all technically remain the exact same species (it's way, way more than you'd think). If you've never looked at the table on wikipedia, please scroll down and take a look!
If you want to see garden food phylogeny tree, I made this a few years ago in D3 and NCBI data using ETE3 (in Pyodide)
http://observablehq.com/@thadk/garden
Neat game. I would appreciate if the full tree animation could be turned off, it's not needed for every guess. Maybe just one new sprout could be animated.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 49.4 ms ] threadI used to play a few of their [2] games daily, but have fallen out of the habit.
[1] https://metazooa.com/
[2] https://trainwrecklabs.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea#Cultivars
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37184046 Metazooa (metazooa.com)
2023-08-19 (21 comments)
I'm not a biologist but here's a thread of things I noticed following it clockwise: https://mastodon.cloud/@thadk/109971022004345501
I immediately went looking for exceptions and found a few:
- fiddlehead ferns
- pine nuts
- juniper berries
- gingko nuts
- nori (red algae), kombu (brown algae), and kaipen (green algae)
But, almost everything else, is an angiosperm.