Raphanus occurs as genus within the flowering plant family Brassicaceae. About two mintage come presently classified inside Raphanus. It include a cultivated radish, Raphanus sativus, the most common raphanus raphanistrum or even jointed charlock, R. raphanistrum. A few authors assume a podding or even rattail radish, R. caudatus as a third member of the genus, when others deal with it as a kind of R. sativus. Real many more coinage in the genus keep around been proposed at various days, however altogether but all come presently look on varieties of R. sativus, when two or three come treated when varieties of R. raphanistrum or even are not accepted besides-described mintage.

Raphanus metal money develop when annual or biennial plants, with the taproot which is much enlarged in the cultivated radish.A genus is indigen to Asia but its members can nowadays become incurred globe wide. Growing untamed, it is esteem invasive species in many regions.