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In the United States, specialists tend to include savoy cabbage within the Capitata Group. In Europe, the distinction is quite clearcut in most languages. MC
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**The Dutch distinguish types with yellowish leaves: gele savvoiekool, gele kool; and types with green leaves: groene savooiekool, groene kool. Moreover, savoy cabbage, when sown thick and cut very young, gives a leafy crop called snijmoes (see [[Brassica napus Pabularia Group]]). MC
 
**The Dutch distinguish types with yellowish leaves: gele savvoiekool, gele kool; and types with green leaves: groene savooiekool, groene kool. Moreover, savoy cabbage, when sown thick and cut very young, gives a leafy crop called snijmoes (see [[Brassica napus Pabularia Group]]). MC

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Brassica oleracea Sabauda Group

Brassica oleracea Groupe Sabauda

Common names: Brassica oleracea Gemmifera Group

Names in common use


  • English: savoy, savoy cabbage
  • German: Wirsing, Wirsingkohl; Savoyer Kohl, Welshkohl; Wirs, Kohl (CH); Kohl, Wirsing (Au)
  • Dutch: savooiekool, Savoye kool; savooikool (B)
  • Swedish: savoykål, savojkål, virsing
  • Danish: savoykål, savojkål
  • Norwegian: savoikål, savoykål
  • Icelandic: blöðrukál, savoikál


  • French: chou de Milan (scholarly), chou frisé, chou vert (popular); also: chou de savoie (B), chou Marcelin (CH)
  • Italian: cavolo verza, verza, cavolo verzotto, cavolo di Milano
  • Spanish: col de Milán, berza
  • Catalan: col arrissada, col lombarda
  • Portuguese: couve lombarda, couve de Milão
  • Romanian: varză creaţă, varză nemţească


  • Russian: капуста савойская - kapusta savojskaja
  • Polish: kapusta włoska
  • Czech: kapusta hlávková
  • Slovak: kel hlávkový
  • Bulgarian: къдраво зеле, савойско зеле, кел, пейч
  • Croatian: kelj
  • Serb: кељ
  • Slovenian: ohrovt


  • Albanian: lakër përdredhëse, kel, lakër e Savojës
  • Greek: κατσαρὸ λάχανο, λάχανο του Μιλάνου, λάχανο της Σαβοΐας, γερμανικὸ λάχανο - katsaro lakhano, lakhano tou Milanou, lakhano tis Savojas, germaniko lakhano,
  • Turkish: kıvırcık lâhana, kıvırcık baş lâhana
  • Hungarian: kelkáposzta
  • Finnish: savoyikaali, virsinki

Sources and commentaries

  • English
    • In the United States, specialists tend to include savoy cabbage within the Capitata Group. In Europe, the distinction is quite clearcut in most languages. MC
  • Dutch
    • The Dutch distinguish types with yellowish leaves: gele savvoiekool, gele kool; and types with green leaves: groene savooiekool, groene kool. Moreover, savoy cabbage, when sown thick and cut very young, gives a leafy crop called snijmoes (see Brassica napus Pabularia Group). MC
  • French
    • chou de Savoie, chou de Milan. savoy cabbage. Notes. - 1. Il est à noter que le mot savoy, en anglais, signifie simplement "feuillage frisé". 2. Le chou de Savoie est une variété de chou pommé frisé." Boivin Gilles, 1992. Lexique des légumes. Lexique français-anglais-latin. Québec, Les Publications du Québec. (Cahiers de l'Office de la langue française).