In March the fields are full of golden rape flowers.
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菜花 covers both cauliflower (the vegetable at the market) and 油菜花 (the yellow rape flowers that bloom across Chinese countryside in spring). Context makes it clear.
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In medical slang 菜花 is also an informal nickname for condyloma / gonorrhea because of the shape. Don't mix it up in a restaurant.
