甘蓝是结球甘蓝的简称,俗称洋白菜、卷心菜。它是十字花科芸苔属,二年生草本,甘蓝类蔬菜,以叶球供食用。以地域色彩及食用器官形态两大命名因素为主要依据,甘蓝累计得到过二三十种不同的称谓。 甘蓝原产于欧洲,它先后经由西北、西南、东北和东南等地区,多次传入中国。甘蓝最初是以散叶形态引入的。 甘蓝的名称始见于唐代的《本草拾遗》,从其关于“此是西土蓝”的记述可以说明:散叶类型的甘蓝沿着丝绸之路传入我国的时间,应不迟于唐代。因为它有淡淡的甜味,那蓝绿色的叶片又与我国原有的染料作物“蓝”很相似,所以定名为“甘蓝”。由于它来自西域(今中亚地区),故以引入地的代称命名为西土蓝。 另从李时珍《本草纲目》转引的“河东、陇西、羌、胡多种食之”推知,甘蓝引入后,在相当长的时间里只是在信奉伊斯兰教的少数民族聚居区驯化、栽培的。因此甘蓝又得到 Cabbage is short for cabbage, commonly known as cabbage, cabbage. It is cruciferous Brassica, biennial herbs, cabbage vegetables, leaf balls for food. Based on the two naming factors of the regional color and edible organ morphology, the cabbage has got over twenty or thirty different appellations. Cabbage originated in Europe, it has passed through the northwest, southwest, northeast and southeast regions, repeatedly introduced to China. Cabbage was originally introduced in the form of loose leaf. The name of cabbage began in the Tang Dynasty, “Herbal Supplements,” from its description of “This is the West Turquoise” can explain: scattered type of cabbage along the Silk Road into China, should be no later than the Tang Dynasty. Because of its subtle sweetness, the turquoise leaves are similar to our original “blue” dye crop, hence the name “cabbage”. As it comes from the Western Regions (now Central Asia), it is called the West Turkistan Blueberry. In addition, the “Hedong, Longxi, Qiang and Hu multi-food” quoted by Li Shizhen’s “Compendium of Materia Medica” deduces that, after being introduced for a long time, cabbage is only domestically cultivated and cultivated inhabited by ethnic minorities inhabited by Islam. So cabbage got again