There are two main types of cauliflower, white and green, and the green one is also known as broccoli, brussels sprouts.
Cauliflower, also known as cauliflower, broccoli, cauliflower, cauliflower, comes in white and green, and the green is also called broccoli and brussels sprouts. Cauliflower is a kale vegetable, available in white and green, also known as cauliflower or cauliflower, and in green, also known as broccoli and brussels sprouts, and is a member of the Brassica family.
They are evolved from the kale, originated in the Mediterranean coast of Europe, white, green two kinds of cauliflower nutrition, the role of basically the same, green than white carotene content to be higher.
Morphological characteristics of cauliflower
1, cauliflower is a biennial herb, 60 to 90 cm high, was frosted. The stem is erect, stout, and branched. Leaves are divided into two kinds of outer leaves and inner leaves. The outer leaves open from the outside to the inside, the leaf blade from the small gradually increased petiolate, to the flower bud differentiation, no longer increase. The leaf blade is larger, especially the width of the leaf is larger. The inner leaves are sessile, encompassing the flower bulb, and from the outside to the inside, the leaves gradually narrow, while the outer leaflets are erect.
2, cauliflower leaf number, leaf shape, color and size vary according to varieties, from the first true leaves to the inner leaves outside the flower ball until the total number of leaves is about 18 to 40. The leaf shape is ovoid, long ovoid, oval, long oval and long lanceolate. Leaf colors are light green, green, gray-green and dark green.
3. There is also waxy powder attached to the leaf blades. There is 1 creamy-white fleshy head at the top of the stem densely formed by the raceme, pedicel and undeveloped flower buds. Racemes terminal and axillary; flowers pale yellow, later turning white. One main axis of the flower bulb has about 50-60 florets, the basal florets are 2-3 cm thick, and the central floret is less than 1 cm.
4. The tissue of the flower bulb is very dense, and the flower buds that continue to differentiate at the tip of the flowering branch are very few that can bloom. The normal floral bulb is hemispherical, the spherical surface is a regular arrangement of left-handed radial whorls, the surface is granular, dense texture. The longhorn fruit is cylindrical, 3 to 4 centimeters long, with a midrib, the beak is thicker in the lower part and thinner in the upper part, 10 to 12 millimeters long. Seeds broadly elliptic, nearly 2 mm long, brown.