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''Brassica oleracea'' Red Cabbage Group

Revision as of 13:32, 28 July 2011


Brassica oleracea Red Cabbage Group

Brassica oleracea Groupe Chou rouge

Names in common use


  • English: red cabbage
  • German: Rotkohl, Rotkraut; Rotkabis (CH); Rotkraut (Au)
  • Dutch: rode kool, rodekool
  • Swedish: rödkål
  • Danish: rødkål
  • Norwegian: rødkål (bok.); raudkål (nyn.)
  • Icelandic: rauðkál


  • French: chou rouge
  • Italian: cavolo rosso
  • Spanish: col roja, col morada
  • Catalan: col roja, col morada
  • Portuguese: repolho roxo
  • Romanian: varză roşie


  • Russian: капуста краснокочанная - kapusta krasnokočannaja
  • Polish: kapusta czerwona
  • Czech: zelí červené
  • Slovak: kapusta červená
  • Bulgarian: червено зеле, червено главесто зеле - červeno zele, červeno glavesto zele
  • Croatian: crveni kupus
  • Serbish: црвени купус - crveni kupus
  • Slovenian: rdeče zelje


  • Albanian: lakër e kuqe (lakra e kuqe with article)
  • Greek: κόκκινο λάχανο - kokkino lakhano
  • Turkish: kırmızı baş lâhana
  • Hungarian: vöröskáposzta, vereskáposzta
  • Finnish: punakaali

Sources and commentaries

Red cabbage is mostly used (raw and cooked) in northern Europe. It is quite unknown in Mediterranean regions of Europe.

  • German:
    • Rotkraut (auch Blaukraut genannt) (Dassler, 1956).
    • Rotkraut, Blaukraut, Rotkohl ((Becker-Dillingen, 1956).
    • Rotkohl (northern German), Blaukraut (Bayern and Austria), roter Kappes (Rhine region) (Hegi)
  • italiano:
    • sometimes called crauti when preserved in salt. MC