Solanum basal leaves are narrow spatulate, one pinnately parted or lobed, and the leaves on the upper part of the stem are linear. While the caper basal leaves are rosulate, lyrate pinnatifid, stem leaves are narrow lanceolate or lanceolate with an arrow-shaped base. Flowers: The solitary cabbage is a raceme, about 5 centimeters long in fruit. Whereas the caper inflorescences are up to 20 centimeters long. Solanum is a raceme, about 5 cm long in fruit, sepals are ovate, early deciduous, outside pilose, petals degenerate into filaments, color is white.
And the caper is also a raceme, but much longer than the former, up to about 20 centimeters, sepals are oblong, petals are ovate, also white. It is a food that can be eaten, like a vegetable, and is rich in vitamins and other nutrients, and because it is a wild vegetable it tastes better than its home-grown counterparts. There are a lot of ways to make it taste better, especially if you dry it in the sun after picking it.
The cabbage and the caper are both cruciferous herbs, they have some similarities, cabbage belongs to the cabbage genus, caper belongs to the caper genus. Shepherd's purse is the taste of wild vegetables, flowering in mid-spring; although called vegetables, but the flavor is far less than the caper, late spring and early summer flowering, flowering time than the caper more than a month late. Usually, the northern region can choose in April to May, when the weather is very warm, it is the time that can be planted, the seed will be easier to germinate, and in the southern region in March or so can be planted. Fruiting capers, it will lose the tenderness of the seedling, become hard and no longer palatable.
As the taste deteriorates, they no longer need the grayish protective color of the seedling, but instead turn their fruits bright green so that they can photosynthesize as much as possible to make nutrients. These photosynthesis-capable fruits look almost like another form of leaf on the outside.