Canola Flowers in Takikawa

Canola flower called nanohana in Japanese is one of the spring flowers in bright yellow color. The plant was developed from rapeseed cultivars of Brassica napusa and Brassica rapa by Canadian researchers from the University of Manitoba as a substitute to rapeseed plant in the early 1970s. The name itself was an abbreviation of Canada as “Can” and “OLA ” meaning “Oil, low acid”.