Mustasa
Brassica juncea · Brown mustard
- Names in the book
- Mostaza, Sp.; Mustard, Eng.
- Colours
- floweryellow
- Native range
- Central and East Asia
- Family
- Brassicaceae, filed in the book under Cruciferæ
- Printed as
- Brassica juncea, Hook. & Thom. (Sinapis juncea, L.)
- Sources
- Page 30 on Project Gutenberg · Wikipedia
The plant today
Brassica juncea, commonly mustard greens, brown mustard, Chinese mustard, Indian mustard, Japanese mustard, Korean green mustard, leaf mustard, Oriental mustard and vegetable mustard, is a species of mustard plant.
Excerpt from “Brassica juncea” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sa Tagalog
Ang mustasa (Ingles: mustard o mustard greens; Kastila: mostaza) ay isang uri ng gulay. Katangian nito ang pagkakaroon ng mga malalapad at madililim na dahon at mga mapanglaw ngunit lunti ring mga sanga. Karaniwan din itong ginagawang dilawin na panimplang sarsa para sa mga hotdog. Pangunahing pinanggagalingan ang mga buto ng ilang mga uri ng mustasa ng langis o mantika at mga sarsa.
Sipi mula sa “Mustasa” sa Tagalog Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Recorded in the Philippines
GBIF holds 42 records of this plant from the Philippines. The ones with map coordinates fall in 6 provinces: Laguna (4), Bulacan (2), Maguindanao (1), Metropolitan Manila (1), Quezon (1), Zambales (1).
Counts from GBIF occurrence records, October 2026. They include planted trees and garden plants, and a province with no records may only lack collectors.
What the 1901 book says
A historical record, quoted as printed. Doses and remedies here are not medical advice.
Uses
The seeds are used in the same way as those of white or black mustard (Sinapis alba and S. nigra, L.).
Botanical description
Plant with a glabrous stem, leaves sessile, glabrous, lanceolate, the upper ones serrate, the lower ones almost entire. Flowers in racemes. Calyx, 4 sepals. Corolla, 4 rounded, unguiculate petals. Stamens 6, two of them short and the other four longer and united in pairs. Ovary flattened. Seed vessel quadrangular, nodular, glabrous, containing many oval seeds.
Recent research
The most cited papers since 2022 that name this plant in the title, pulled from Europe PMC in October 2026. Titles are the authors' own and the findings have not been reviewed here.
- Amelioration of Chromium-Induced Oxidative Stress by Combined Treatment of Selected Plant-Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria and Earthworms via Modulating the Expression of Genes Related to Reactive Oxygen Species Metabolism in Brassica juncea
- Assessing stress responses in potherb mustard (Brassica juncea var. multiceps) exposed to a synergy of microplastics and cadmium: Insights from physiology, oxidative damage, and metabolomics
- Effect of zinc oxide nanoparticles synthesized from Carya illinoinensis leaf extract on growth and antioxidant properties of mustard (Brassica juncea)