Acephala group
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The Acephala group of cultivars for the species Brassica oleracea includes:[1]
- kale, or borecole, or colewort
- curly kale
- American English collard greens, or collard
- U.K. English spring greens
- decorative kale[2], ornamental kale[3], flowering kale[4], flowering cabbage[5], or ornamental cabbage[6]
- giant Jersey cabbage[7], long jack[8], walking-stick cabbage[9], cow cabbage[10], Jersey French grand chou à vacque[11], tree cabbage[12], or Jersey kale[13], Brassica oleracea longata[14]
- Scotch kale[15]
The Acephala means "no head"[16] 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,[17] evolution, the ecological niche[18], and intentional plant-breeding by man.
References
- ^ RHS Plant Finder. Web. https://www.rhs.org.uk Accessed: 2014-11-25.
- ^ Henry Homeyer: the Gardening Guy http://www.gardening-guy.com/tag/decorative-kale/
- ^ Walter Reeves,com The Georgia Gardener http://www.walterreeves.com/landscaping/ornamental-kaleornamental-cabbage/
- ^ Better Homes & Gardens http://www.bhg.com/gardening/plant-dictionary/annual/flowering-kale/
- ^ Garden Guides.com http://www.gardenguides.com/70082-flowering-cabbage-plants.html
- ^ Gardeners' World.com http://www.gardenersworld.com/blogs/plants/the-ornamental-cabbage/2897.html
- ^ BBC History Domesday http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/CI-554000-5452000/page/7 This page misspells "oleracea".
- ^ BBC History Domesday http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/domesday/dblock/CI-554000-5452000/page/7 This page misspells "oleracea".
- ^ Thompson & Morgan http://www.thompson-morgan.com/vegetables/vegetable-seeds/brassica-and-leafy-green-seeds/kale-walking-stick/779TM
- ^ Jersey Evening Post. (2004) "Giant cabbage" http://jerseyeveningpost.com/island-life/history-heritage/giant-cabbage/. Online.
- ^ Andrew, A.J. (2014) SFPages : Home Guide : How to grow giant walking stick cabbages. http://homeguides.sfgate.com/grow-giant-walking-stick-cabbage-76144.html. Online. Accessed: 2014-11-26
- ^ The Cottage Smallholder http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/perennial-vegetables-tree-cabbage-7321/
- ^ Chiltern Seeds http://www.chilternseeds.co.uk/item_1360c_jersey_kale_or_walking_stick_cabbage_seeds
- ^ Torpey, Jodi (2014) Walking stick kale really works. In "Vegetable Gardener" http://www.vegetablegardener.com/item/12690/walking-stick-kale-really-works
- ^ Oxford Dictionaries : Language matters http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/Scotch-kale
- ^ Merriam-Webster http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acephala
- ^ https://www.bio.cmu.edu/. Courses: "Genome evolution and mutation". Web. Accessed: 2014-11-25.
- ^ Coupling Genetic and Ecological-Niche Models to Examine How Past Population Distributions Contribute to Divergence. Current Biology. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982207012742
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