Vegetable Cultivar Descriptions for North America

Turnip, Lists 1-26 Combined

Edited by Irwin Goldman

Department of Horticulture
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706

All Top (ACR 3102) - Breeder: Sakata. Vendor: Abbott and Cobb. Characteristics: F1 hybrid, fast growing and high yielding vegetable or foliage crop, multiple harvests possible. Similar: Seven Top, Shogoin. Adaptation: wide.

Charlestowne - Breeder: Clemson University Expt. Sta. and Agric. Research Serv., USDA, Charleston, South Carolina. Parentage: Raah Salad, Purple Top White Globe, Shogoin. Characteristics: open pollinated, aphid resistant, bolt resistant, cold tolerant foliage turnip with small white roots and elliptical, glabrous, dark green leaves. Resistance: turnip aphid (Hyadaphis erysiimi), premature bolting. Similar: Shogoin. 1980.

De Milan - Characteristics: deep rose colored shoulders and white bottoms, early maturity.

Fortress - Breeder: University of Arkansas. Characteristics: for greens production, tolerance to white spot and bolting, deep color, leaves have short petioles, fully upright habit, excellent field holding ability.

Hakurei - Characteristics: white salad turnip, flat-round smooth white roots, early-maturing, good flavor.

Just Right - Characteristics: large white globe, cold tolerant, best for fall and winter crops, root and leaf crop.

Market Express - Breeder: Sakata. Characteristics: F1 hybrid, small pure white root, globe shape, mild and sweet, very early maturity, multipurpose turnip.

Presto - Breeder: Sakata. Characteristics: open pollinated, small white root.

Purple Top White Globe - Characteristics: round smooth root with bright purple crown, mild flavor, sweet, widely grown, open pollinated.

Roots - Breeder: Clemson University Expt. Sta. and Agric. Research Serv., USDA, Charleston, South Carolina. Parentage: Raab Salad, Purple Top White Globe, and Shogoin. Characteristics: open pollinated, large roots, dark-purple tops and white globes; aphid resistant, pinnately cleft, dark green glabrous leaves; plants have a single growing point and foliage remains erect and off the soil. Resistance: Turnip aphid (Hyadaphis erysiimi). Similar: Purple Top White Globe. 1980.

Royal Crest - Characteristics: F1 hybrid, second generation Purple Top White Globe type, taller and deeper green tops than Purple Top White Globe and Royal Crown, intense purple coloration on crown, high yield.

Royal Crown - Breeder: T. Sakata. Vendor: Northrup King and Co. Characteristics: F1 hybrid, vigorous, produces semi-flat-shaped root, lower portion of root white with attractive purple top, uniform with good hybrid vigor. Similar: Purple Top White Globe. Adaptation: United States. 1978.

Royal Crown II - Breeder: Sakata. Characteristics: F1 hybrid version of Purple Top White Globe, improved uniformity, semi globe shape, shoulders. Similar: Purple Top White Globe.

Royal Globe (ACR 3105) - Breeder and Vendor: Abbott and Cobb. Characteristics: F1 hybrid, uniform size, shape and color, faster growing than open pollinated. types. Similar: Purple Top and White Globe. Adaptation: wide. 1978.

Royal Globe II (ACR 3106) - Breeder and Vendor: Abbott and Cobb. Vendor: Abbott and Cobb and Otis Twilley. Characteristics: F1 hybrid, dark green foliage; broader and less cut-leaved than Royal Globe. Similar: Royal Globe. Adaptation: wide. 1980.

Sakata Foliage - Breeder: Sakata. Characteristics: open pollinated, large root, used as a foliage crop.

Savanna - Breeder: Sakata. Characteristics: hybrid of Early Tendergreen and Black-leafed Tendergreen, uniform and vigorous, upright habit, large round and shiny leaves. Resistance: cold-tolerant and bolting better than Tendergreen.

Seven Top - Characteristics: for greens, very dark green, flesh not edible, stock feed.

Shogoin - Characteristics: open pollinated, for foliage crop, roots white and flattened on top, tender and mild tasting leaves.

Shortop - Breeder and Vendor: Bill Wahlert Seeds. Characteristics: open pollinated, early, short tops (10-12"). Similar: Purple Top White Globe. 1978.

Show Top (ACR 3101) - Breeder and Vendor: Abbott and Cobb. Characteristics: F1 hybrid, dark green, vigorous tops, very uniform white roots. Similar: Just Rite. Adaptation: wide. 1979.

Spring Cutie - Breeder: Sakata. Characteristics: slow bolting, small size, leaves have thick petioles, semi globe shape, can overwinter in the field at temperatures of -3° C and above.

Tokyo Cross - Characteristics: F1 hybrid, very early, white globe shape.

Tokyo Market Second Early - Breeder: Sakata. Characteristics: open pollinated, slightly larger than Tokyo Market Early.

Tokyo Top - Breeder: Sakata. Characteristics: leaves larger and thicker roots than Market Express, later maturity than Market Express. Resistance: virus, downy mildew, bolting.

Top Star (STP 9901) - Breeder and vendor: Sakata Seed America. Parentage: F1 hybrid. Characteristics: excellent for turnip green production. 1998.

Topper - Characteristics: Hybrid Seven Top type with aphid and downy mildew resistance, leaves are non-pubescent, good cold tolerance, dark color. Resistance: aphids, downy mildew, tolerance to cold.

Tornado (Forage Star) - Breeder: Sakata. Characteristics: F1 hybrid, for foliage crop, thick fleshed leaves, deep green, tops usable in 60°. Resistance: tolerance to cold and downy mildew. Similar: Seven Top, with broader leaves.

White Count - Breeder: Sakata. Characteristics: F1 hybrid, semi-globe shape, slightly upright habit, early bolter. Resistance: virus, black spot, downy mildew, tolerance to cold. Similar: White Knight.

White Egg - Characteristics: egg shape, white with green-white tinted crown, crisp sweet flesh.

White Knight (52-1) - Breeder: T. Sakata. Vendor: Northrup King and Co. Characteristics: F1 hybrid, large rooted, upright habit, globe shape, becomes pithy when past maturity, early bolter, all white mild with excellent flavor; smooth texture, heavy tops and foliage, holds up well. Resistance: virus, black spot, downy mildew. Similar: Just Rite. Adaptation: wide. 1978.

White Lady - Breeder: Sakata. Characteristics: F1 hybrid, medium size root, good bolting tolerance and heat tolerance, erect habit, tender leaves, pure white skinned roots.

Yorii Spring - Characteristics: early maturing, all white, sweet.