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Many European and Asiatic names for cabbage are derived from the Celto-Slavic root cap or kap, meaning "head". [25] The late Middle English word cabbage derives from the word caboche ("head"), from the Picard dialect of Old French. This in turn is a variant of the Old French caboce. [26]
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 ...
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.
Cabbage heads generally range from 0.5 to 4 kilograms (1 to 9 lb), and can be green, purple and white. Smooth-leafed firm-headed green cabbages are the most common, with smooth-leafed red and crinkle-leafed savoy cabbages of both colors seen more rarely.
The name Brassicaceae comes to international scientific vocabulary from Neo-Latin, from Brassica, the type genus, + -aceae, [16] a standardized suffix for plant family names in modern taxonomy. The genus name comes from the Classical Latin word brassica , referring to cabbage and other cruciferous vegetables .
Savoy cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. sabauda L. or Brassica oleracea Savoy Cabbage Group) [3] is a variety or cultivar group of the plant species Brassica oleracea. Savoy cabbage is a winter vegetable and one of several cabbage varieties. [4] It has crinkled, emerald green leaves, [5] which are crunchy with a slightly elastic consistency on ...
Kohlrabi (German: [koːlˈʁaːbi] ⓘ; pronounced / k oʊ l ˈ r ɑː b i / in English; scientific name Brassica oleracea Gongylodes Group), also called German turnip or turnip cabbage, is a biennial vegetable, a low, stout cultivar of wild cabbage.
The Korean name for napa cabbage, baechu (배추), is a nativized word from the Sino-Korean reading, baekchae, of the same Chinese character sets. Today in Mandarin Chinese, napa cabbage is known as dàbáicài ( 大白菜 ), literally "big white vegetable", as opposed to the "small white vegetable" that is known in English as bok choy .