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The difference between dandelion and bitter vegetable

Skyler White
2020-08-18 09:04:09
Leaves: dandelion leaves are inverted egg shaped lanceolate or oblong lanceolate, with serrated edges. The leaves of bitter cabbage are clumped and oval in shape, with rough serrations arranged on the edge. Flower: dandelion flower has bell shaped involucre, light green, white flower, while cauliflower has linear involucre, yellow flower.

Leaves

Dandelion leaves are inverted egg shaped lanceolate or oblong shaped lanceolate, blunt or sharp at the top, with wavy teeth or pinnate deep cracks on the edge, and the lobes at the top of the leaves are relatively large, showing a triangular or triangular shape of halberd

The edges of the leaves are all zigzag, spreading or growing backward. There are small teeth between the lobes, which gradually narrow into petioles at the bottom. The petioles and main veins are red and purple, covered with arachnoid white hairs.

A dandelion leaf

The leaves of bitter cabbage are clumped and withered when the flowers are in bloom. They are oval and oval in shape. They are not divided. The top of the leaves is blunt or sharp.

The base of the leaf is wedge-shaped, with rough serrations on the edge, dark green on the top and light green on the back. Not covered with fur

The stem leaves are opposite, often pinnate and deeply split, and the top lobes are egg shaped or lanceolate, gradually sharp from the top, with coarse serrations, covered with hairs on both sides, and the upper leaves gradually narrow without petioles.

A dandelion leaf

Flower

The upper part of scape is purplish red and covered with pilose.

The involucre of the flower is campanulate, the whole is light green; there are 2 to 3 layers of bracts. The outer involucral bracts are ovate, with broad membranous on the top edge, pale green at the bottom, and purplish red on the top.

The anthers and stigmas are dark green.

The overall color of the flower is white.

The flower of dandelion

Bitter cabbage grows upright, its flower is yellow, open in the top of the branch.

The involucre of cauliflower is in line shape, very small; the bracts are also very small, so the whole flower is also small.

Corolla is campanulate, show yellow, cyst is not apparent on one side of base ministry, have white villous to cover inside, corolla lobe shows egg shape;.

Style about 3 mm long, stigma peltate or truncate.

Well, you can always distinguish between leaves and flowers.

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