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Because kale can grow well into winter, one variety of rape kale is called "hungry gap" after the period in winter in traditional agriculture when little else could be harvested. An extra-tall variety is known as Jersey kale or cow cabbage. [11] Kai-lan or Chinese kale is a cultivar often used in Chinese cuisine. In Portugal, the bumpy-leaved ...
Relief depicting Kandake Amanitore. Kandake, kadake or kentake (Meroitic: 𐦲𐦷𐦲𐦡 kdke), [1] often Latinised as Candace (Ancient Greek: Κανδάκη, Kandakē), [1] was the Meroitic term for the sister of the king of Kush who, due to the matrilineal succession, would bear the next heir, making her a queen mother.
Scotch kale [11] Acephala means "no head" [ 12 ] as the plants have leaves with no central head; the opposite arrangement of white cabbage , or Savoy cabbage . Each cultivar has a different genome owing to mutation, [ 13 ] evolution, ecological niche, [ 14 ] and intentional plant-breeding by humans.
Kandace Springs was born in Nashville, Tennessee, United States, in 1989. Her father Scat Springs was a session singer in Nashville. She has two sisters. At the age of ten she started following piano lessons. She grew up listening to jazz and soul singers like Nina Simone.
Lacinato kale, [a] also known as Tuscan kale, Italian kale, dinosaur kale, kale, flat back kale, palm tree kale, black Tuscan palm, [3] [4] or, in Italian and often in English, cavolo nero, [b] is a variety of kale from the Acephala group of cultivars Brassica oleracea grown for its edible leaves.
Brassica oleracea is a plant of the family Brassicaceae, also known as wild cabbage in its uncultivated form. The species evidently originated from feral populations of related plants in the Eastern Mediterranean, where it was most likely first cultivated.
Bâtons d'chour - walking sticks made from the long stalk of Jersey cabbage. Jersey kale, as illustrated in The Farmer's Magazine, 1836.. The Jersey cabbage (Brassica oleracea longata) is a variety of cabbage native to the Channel Islands that grows to a great height and was formerly commonly used there as livestock fodder and for making walking sticks.
Candace is a royal title from the Bible, ultimately deriving from the term kandake, a title for a queen or queen mother in the ancient African Kingdom of Kush; also meaning pure and innocent.