Purple Top White Globe Turnip

 The turnip is a root vegetable and is white with a bulbous taproot. In north of Scotland and England the turnip is called neep. The word turnip came from neep. Neep is usually refers to the rutabaga. The rutabaga is a root vegetable known as swede. Turnip leaves are eaten as turnip greens. Turnip tops are called mustered greens in the United Kingdom. Verities of B.rapa have been developed for the use of leaves called Chinese cabbage. Turnip roots weigh about 1 kilogram. The root is rough and cone shaped but is occasionally global. It is about 5-20cm in diameter, and lacks side roots.