Cauliflower and cabbage are two kinds of vegetables that we usually eat often, but it is actually difficult to distinguish between these two kinds of vegetables by their names alone. In fact, both cauliflower and cabbage belong to the kale plant.

We often eat hand-torn cabbage is cabbage, in the material is not too rich in the era, the northern people is to rely on cabbage through the cold winter. In different places, cabbages are called differently, for example, there are cabbage, head cabbage, cabbage, lotus white and many other names. Cabbage in the early stages of growth, each petiole is relatively long like a blooming green lotus, such as growth to the middle, petiole gradually shorten disappeared, the internal leaves began to wrap each other to generate a ball.

Cauliflower is also known as cauliflower, cauliflower in the late stages of growth at the top of the stem will give birth to flower buds, and then expanded to form a flower ball. The parts we eat are its flower bulb, flower stalk and undifferentiated flower buds. When the temperature is right, the flower buds at the top of the cauliflower begin to differentiate, forming the calyx and buds, and finally flowering and fruiting.