Are cabbage and olive vegetable the same vegetable?

Cabbage is cultivated all over China, commonly known as “datoucai” in the Northeast and “lianhuabai” in Yunnan. So, is cabbage olive vegetable?

1. Is cabbage olive vegetable?

Cabbage is not olive vegetable. Cabbage is an annual or biennial herbaceous plant of the Cruciferae family and Brassica genus, and is a common vegetable; whereas olive vegetable is made by frying the sweet mellow flavor of olives with the plump leaves of mustard greens, and is a flavored side dish from the Chaoshan region of Guangdong, belonging to Chaozhou cuisine within the Cantonese cuisine system.

2. What are the main varieties of cabbage?

1. Wild cabbage

Biennial or perennial herb. Lower leaves large, deeply lyrate-pinnatifid, with colored veins, petiolate; terminal lobe large, apex rounded, base obliquely cordate. Racemes up to 30 cm or longer in fruit; flowers pale yellow; sepals oblong, erect; petals obovate. Siliques cylindrical; beak 5-10 mm long, seedless; pedicels about 2 cm long; seeds spherical, gray-brown. Wild in Britain and the Mediterranean region, not cultivated in China.

2. Cauliflower

Biennial herb, 60-90 cm tall, covered with powdery bloom. Stem erect, stout, branched. Basal and lower leaves oblong to elliptic; petioles 2-3 cm long; middle and upper stem leaves smaller and sessile. Racemes terminal and axillary; flowers pale yellow, later turning white. Seeds broadly elliptic, brown. Flowering in April, fruiting in May. Cultivated in various places. The head is eaten as a vegetable.

3. Brussels sprouts soup vegetable

Stem stout, erect, 0.5-1 m tall, with large soft leaf buds in all leaf axils of the stem, 2-3 cm in diameter. Occasionally cultivated in major cities of China. The leaf buds are eaten as a vegetable.

4. Kale

Leaves wrinkled, appearing white-yellow, yellow-green, pink, or red-purple, with long petioles. Cultivated in parks of major cities in China. It is an ornamental plant.

Cabbage is a nutritious vegetable and can be eaten regularly.