Acephala group
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The Acephala group of cultivars or variety for the species Brassica oleracea includes:[1]
- kale, or borecole, or colewort[2]
- curly kale
- American English collard greens, or collard
- U.K. English spring greens
- decorative kale,[3] ornamental kale,[4] flowering kale,[5] flowering cabbage,[6] or ornamental cabbage[7]
- giant Jersey cabbage,[8] long jack,[9] walking-stick cabbage,[10] cow cabbage,[11] Jérriais lé grand chour à vaque [i.e., big cabbage for cows],[12] Jérriais lé chour [i.e., cabbage],[13] tree cabbage,[14] or Jersey kale,[15] or Brassica oleracea longata[16]
- Scotch kale[17]
The Acephala means "no head"[18] 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,[19] evolution, the ecological niche,[20] and intentional plant-breeding by man.
References
- ^ RHS Plant Finder. Web. https://www.rhs.org.uk Accessed: 2014-11-25.
- ^ (Quote.) "Originally, a general name for any plant of the cabbage kind, genus Brassica (of which the varieties were formerly less distinct than now)." ("colewort, n." OED Online. Oxford University Press, September 2014. Web. 26 November 2014.)
- ^ 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 For spelling of "chour", and "vaque" cf. 'Dictionnaithe Jerriais-Angliais: Jerriais-English dictionary'. Jersey : Société Jersiaise 2005.
- ^ FREELANG Jérriais to English dictionary http://www.freelang.net/online/jerriais.php?lg=gb
- ^ 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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