Lettuce, also known as goose, pigeon and lettuce, belongs to the genus Lettuce in Compositae, and its varieties mainly include wrinkled lettuce, erect lettuce and bulbous lettuce. It originated from the Mediterranean coast and is widely planted in the north and south of China.

Lettuce appearance

Lettuce is short, with a height of 25- 100 cm, vertical roots, erect stems and panicles at the top of stems and branches. Bracts have five layers, the outer layer is lanceolate or triangular, the middle layer is ovate-lanceolate, the inner layer is linear and rectangular, and the fruit is oblanceolate, flat, light brown and veined.

Color: The color of the stems and branches of lettuce is white.

Leaves: Lettuce leaves are oval, oblanceolate, sessile, tapering or rounded at the top, heart-shaped at the base, serrated at the edge and hairless.

Seeds: Lettuce seeds are small, spindle-shaped and gray.

Sentences describing lettuce

Horn lettuce, with slightly twisted leaves, looks like a green rose, Roman lettuce, looks beautiful and graceful, looks like a woman with a small family, and Tianjin red lettuce, which is the Japanese favorite variety, and the red edge is like antlers, which is more beautiful.

Lettuce picture appreciation