Kale is an annual or biennial herb of the genus Brassica of the Cruciferae family, and is one of the important vegetables in China.

Chinese literature: name kale

Alias: cabbage, cabbage, cabbage, cabbage, cabbage, cabbage, cabbage (Sichuan region) round cabbage (Inner Mongolia)

Boundary: Plantae

Organism: Dicotyledonaceae

Family: Cruciferae

Portal: Angiospermae

Organism: Albizia?

Genus: Brassica

Latin name: Brassica oleracea L.

Growing environment: kale like mild moist, sufficient light. Hardy, but also the ability to adapt to high temperatures. Growing temperature 15-20 ℃. Fleshy stem expansion period, such as in the case of high temperatures above 30 ℃ fleshy easily fibrous. The choice of soil is not very strict, but it is suitable for planting in humus-rich clay loam or sandy loam. Kale seedlings must be 0-10 ℃ through the vernalization, and then in the long sunshine and moderate temperatures under the draw, flowering, fruit.

Morphological Characteristics:

Biennial or perennial herb, about 60-150 cm tall. Lower leaves large, lyrate-pinnatipartite, up to 40 cm long, with colored veins, petiolate; apical lobes large, apically rounded, base crookedly cordate, margins undulate, crenulate, apical lobes 3-5 pairs, obovate, upper leaves oblong, entire, amplexicaul, all leaves fleshy, glabrous, glaucous.

Racemes up to 30 cm or longer in fruit; flowers pale yellow, 10-15 mm in diameter; sepals oblong, erect, 8-11 mm long; petals obovate, 15-20 mm long, apically rounded, clawed. Long-horned fruit cylindrical, 5-10 cm long; beak 5-10 mm long, seedless; fruiting pedicel ca. 2 cm long; seeds globose, ca. 2 mm in diameter, gray-brown.

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