# Kohlrabi? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 27, 2015, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kohlrabi/735863 "2015-10-27T11:50:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 15
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kohlrabi/735863/15 "2015-10-28T06:18:40Z")
From a thread a few years ago, **Colibri** fights our ignorance about the species of these things: > [@Educate me on one of the finer points of botany, please (Brussels sprouts)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educate-me-on-one-of-the-finer-points-of-botany-please-brussels-sprouts/658289/4): > > The cabbage _Brassica oleracea_ has a very large number of distinct cultivars. Cabbage, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, kale, collard greens, cauliflower, and kohlrabi all belong to the same botanical species. Numerous subsequent posters in that thread expressed surprise to learn that these are all just cultivars of one species. > [@Educate me on one of the finer points of botany, please (Brussels sprouts)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educate-me-on-one-of-the-finer-points-of-botany-please-brussels-sprouts/658289/5): > > I always thought Kohlrabi was a medieval-era Jewish Talmudic scholar/philosopher. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kohlrabi/735863)._