Lettuce plant

Salad plants are cultivated plants that are harvested and processed, mostly eaten as a cold, uncooked, raw, marinated side dish ( salad dishes ) with main courses.

Lamb's lettuce

Lettuce

Chicory

Disambiguation

“Salad plant” is neither a systematic term used in horticulture nor botany ; it is rather a nutritional and kitchen classification based on the preparation:

Lettuce plants in the classic sense are leafy vegetables , but in addition there are also some plant products that belong quite typical for salad mix, such as the tomato (a fruit vegetables ), or be used by both leaf and root shares the carrot (although it primarily as a root vegetable known is), onion vegetables (with leeks, for example, leaf parts), or soy ( seedlings of a plant) and others, as well as a number of wild plants that have been "rediscovered" in the course of organic cuisine , in the broadest sense even some types of fruit , cereals (such as corn) , Mushroom stands and nuts (extended concept of salad in contemporary cuisine).

List of lettuce plants

Leafy vegetables

Garden lettuce ( Lactuca sativa ) garden lettuce (comes from the wild compass or barbed lettuce Lactuca serriola from southern Europe, northeast Africa and India)
- Lettuce , green salad / noise salad / salad butter / butter lettuce / Häuptlesalat / fat salad var. Capitata (wrinkled, apart falling leaves)
  - Batavia salad
  - Crisp Salad
  - Ice cream (mountain) salad (large, cabbage-like, firm heads)
- Leaf lettuce / lettuce / Rupfsalat / Pflücksalat var. Crispa
  - Lollo Rosso , Lollo Bionda
  - Oak leaf salad
- Asparagus salad (var. Angustana , var. Asparagina )
- Bandage or romaine lettuce (var. Longifolia, oldest known lettuce variety)
Chicory / Wegwarten ( Cichorium sunflower )
- Endive , escarole ( Cichorium endivia )
  - Endive , smooth endive, Eskar (i) ol ( Cichorium endivia var. Crispum )
  - Curly endive , frisée ( Cichorium endivia var. Latifolium )