broccoli, sprouts and cauliflower. Original sea or wild cabbage still grown in European coastal areas, and it does not have "heads" and it looks like a kale than cabbage, both Romans and Greeks wisely valued it as healthy food. Ever they wet far in assuming it could be drunkenness. Cabbage heads started forming about 1 st century BCE, it was already describing in twelve-inches of heads. This was only the hearsay as headed cabbage seems evolved in the northern Europe.

On of earliest head cabbages was red, it was followed by the types of loose-leafed varieties of the dark or light green and tinged some times with purple or red. With increasing number of some verities possibility of the extended was growing in the seasons. Chinese cabbages belong to same species as European brassicas. It resembles seakale and hasn't proper head, and it also doesn't have any spreading or wide leaves, other is cabbage Kerguelen, it can not be related to European cabbages, it is ordinary leafy cabbage as well as grows only on Antractic island of Heard and Kerguelaen.

Cabbages are grouped as in different seasons of harvest and shapes, these fairly range from loose-leafed of pointed or the conical shape to rounded ball shapes with the degree varying of a densely packed leaves. These are harvested almost in all season. Winter storage varieties are usually drum-headed or ball shape, these are white leaved and used mainly for the coleslaw, extremely hardy, attractive as well as tasty, while some type have puckered leaved and a mature mind to late winter, after winter season, the cabbages have farmed look like pointed on heads.