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Brassica oleracea Sabauda Group (Common names)


Brassica oleracea Sabauda Group

Brassica oleracea Groupe Sabauda

See also:

Brassica oleracea (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Acephala Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Alboglabra Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Botrytis Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Capitata Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Costata Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Cymosa Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Gemmifera Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Gongylodes Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Medullosa Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Palmifolia Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Pyramidalis Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Ramosa Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Rubra Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Sabellica Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Selenisia Group (Common names)


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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


  • Latvian:
  • Lithuanian:
  • 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
  • Maltese:
  • Hungarian: kelkáposzta
  • Finnish: savoyikaali, virsinki
  • Estonian:

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. The color qualifiers are not ambiguous, as they are never used for witte kool or rode kool. MC
    • Savoy cabbage, when sown thick and cut very young, gives a leafy crop called snijmoes (see Brassica napus Pabularia Group). MC
    • Putjeskool. It owes its name to the small pit (putje) it has at the top of the head, due to the fact that leaves don't overlap each other as in other varieties, but end with a crinkled margin before reaching the top. There are different types of putjeskool and also different names, such as Bredase, Zwijndrechtse, Westlandse or Deventer, but such names are more or less used one for the other." Rassenljist voor groentegewassen, 1955. instituut voor de veredeling van tuinbouwgewassen.
  • 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).