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The flowers, seeds, stalks, and tender leaves of many species of Brassica can be eaten raw or cooked. [5] Almost all parts of some species have been developed for food, including the root (swede, turnip), stems (), leaves (cabbage, collard greens, kale), flowers (cauliflower, broccoli, romanesco broccoli), buds (Brussels sprouts, cabbage), and seeds (many, including mustard seed, and oil ...
Brassicaceae (/ ˌ b r æ s ɪ ˈ k eɪ s iː ˌ iː,-s i ˌ aɪ /) or (the older) Cruciferae (/ k r uː ˈ s ɪ f ər i /) [2] is a medium-sized and economically important family of flowering plants commonly known as the mustards, the crucifers, or the cabbage family. Most are herbaceous plants, while some are shrubs.
The term colewort is a medieval term for non-heading brassica crops. [2] [3]The term collard has been used to include many non-heading Brassica oleracea crops. While American collards are best placed in the Viridis crop group, [4] the acephala (Greek for 'without a head') cultivar group is also used referring to a lack of close-knit core of leaves (a "head") like cabbage does, making collards ...
Cabbage plants. Cruciferous vegetables are vegetables of the family Brassicaceae (also called Cruciferae) with many genera, species, and cultivars being raised for food production such as cauliflower, cabbage, kale, garden cress, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, mustard plant and similar green leaf vegetables.
Although rarely abundant, wild cabbage is found on the coasts of Britain, France, Spain, and Italy. [4] Wild cabbage is a hardy plant with high tolerance for salt and lime. Its intolerance of competition from other plants [11] typically restricts its natural occurrence to limestone sea cliffs, like the chalk cliffs on both sides of the English ...
The mustard leaf beetle (Phaedon cochleariae), is a common pest of cabbage plants. [67] The mustard leaf beetle will often choose to feed on cabbage over their natural host plants as cabbage is more abundant in palatable compounds such as glucosinolates that encourage higher consumption. [68]
Leaves and flower buds Caper flower in Behbahan. The shrubby plant is many-branched, with alternate leaves, thick and shiny, round to ovate.The flowers are complete, sweetly fragrant, and showy, with four sepals and four white to pinkish-white petals, many long violet-coloured stamens, and a single stigma usually rising well above the stamens.
Alate – having wing-like structures, usually on the seeds or stems, as in Euonymus alata. Alternate – buds are staggered on opposite sides of the branch. Bark – the outer layers of woody plants: cork, phloem, and vascular cambium. Branches – Bud – an immature stem tip, typically an embryonic shoot, either producing a stem, leaves, or ...