Taxon: Brassica oleracea L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra (7 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. botrytis (461 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. capitata (1005 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. costata (12 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera (77 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes (30 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. italica (60 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. medullosa (9 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. oleracea (2 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. palmifolia (1 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. ramosa (7 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. sabauda (28 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. sabellica (2 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. viridis (148 accessions)

Common names:

• cabbage   (Source: not available)
  
• kale   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  
• wild cabbage   (Source: BSBI )
  
• ye gan lan   (Source: F ChinaEng )
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (to livestock fide Kellerman et al.)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Brassica oleracea from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

Native:

• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom [coasts]
  Middle Europe: Germany - Schleswig-Holstein
  Southwestern Europe: France [w. & n. coasts]; Spain [n. coast]

Other:

• widely cultivated

References:

• Opera Bot. v. 55.
• Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
• Clapham, A. R. et al. 1962. Flora of the British Isles ed. 2. (F BritClap)
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. (F Turk)
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2. (L Macar ed2)
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae. (Atlas Eur)
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Mansfeld, R. 1959. Die Kulturpflanze, Beiheft 2. (Mansfeld)
• Munro, D. B. Canadian poisonous plants information system - on-line resource. (Can Poison Pl)
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan. (F Pak)
• Nieuwhof, M. 1969. Cole Crops. 1–353.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Siemonsma, J. S. & Kasem Piluek, eds. 1993. Vegetables. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs) 8:108.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea. (F Eur)
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Brassica oleracea.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Brassica oleracea. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• Brassica alboglabra L. H. Bailey [≡ Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra]
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• Brassica caulorapa (DC.) Pasq. [= Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes]
  
• Brassica oleracea var. acephala auct. [= Brassica oleracea var. sabellica]
  (previously associated with 5 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea f. alba DC. [= Brassica oleracea var. capitata]
  
• Brassica oleracea var. bullata DC., pro parte majore [= Brassica oleracea var. sabauda]
  
• Brassica oleracea var. caulorapa DC. [= Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes]
  (previously associated with 6 accessions)
• Brassica oleracea var. conica DC. [= Brassica oleracea var. capitata]
  
• Brassica oleracea subvar. gemmifera DC. [≡ Brassica oleracea var. gemmifera]
  
• Brassica oleracea var. rubra L. [= Brassica oleracea var. capitata]
  
• Brassica oleracea var. tronchuda L. H. Bailey [= Brassica oleracea var. costata]
  

Check other databases for Brassica oleracea L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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