Common name: Cabbage Turnip, Kohlrabi, German turnip, Turnip cabbage • Assamese: ওল কবী Ol kobi • Bengali: ওল কবী Ol kobi • Hindi: गांठ गोभी Ganth gobhi • Kannada: Gade-kosu, Navil-kosu • Kashmiri: Hakh ﺣﺎﻛﮫ, Munj haakh ﻣﻮﻧﺞ ﺣﺎﻛﮫ
Botanical name:Brassica oleracea var. gongylodesFamily:Brassicaceae (Mustard family)
Cabbage Turnip is a cross between wild cabbage and
turnips, widely cultivated as a vegetable. Stem base is highly
shortened, fleshy, spherical, looking like a turnip. Basal and lower
stem leaves are green, numerous, unlike cabbage not overlapping into a
head, generally obovate. Axillary leafy buds not forming heads.
Inflorescence is neither fleshy nor condensed into a head. Flowers are
yellow. Cabbage Turnip is a popular vegetable in Kashmir, for its
edible leaves. In North-India its swollen stem is more popular as a
vegetable.
Identification credit: Sunit Singh
Photographed in cultivation in Darori Doda, J&K.
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