![bastard cabbage](/sites/default/files/inline-images/Rapistrum_rugosum_fruit_20180614_0.jpg)
On a blustery June day near Redenhall, no more than four hundred metres from the Suffolk border the oilseed rape was overtopped by a mass of Black Mustard, Brassica nigra, which stretched along the edge of the crop for a good 50 metres.
![black mustard](/sites/default/files/inline-images/Bassica_nigra_fruit_20180614_0.jpg)
A little further down into the Waveney valley, the edge of the same crop was dominated by a dense strip Bastard Cabbage, Rapistrum rugosum. Although these two members of the cabbage family might be confused from a distance when in flower, the fruits of each species are quite distinctive
Bob Ellis
14.06.2018