Lettuce is an angiosperm, dicotyledonous plant belonging to the Asteraceae family. It is often and erroneously called a salad, being often part of or main ingredient of the homonymous dish. It is a two-year species, the first year forms a rosette, the second the floral scape. The root system is composed of short taproot and superficial, thin and fleshy roots. The basal leaves are of various shapes, ovate or elongated, and green or reddish in color; they form a more or less compact “head” or “head”.

Often confused with the “cousin” chicory (both belong to the same genus Cichorium), endive develops a rosette of very choppy leaves which form a rather loose head. The bleaching of the leaves is carried out by collecting and binding them with a piece of raffia. The Belgian variety, Belgian Endive, is in the shape of a large cream-colored cigar because it grows in the dark; this technique allows the leaves to remain white and more tender.

Often confused with the “cousin” chicory (both belong to the same genus Cichorium), endive develops a rosette of very choppy leaves which form a rather loose head. The bleaching of the leaves is carried out by collecting and binding them with a piece of raffia. The Belgian variety, Belgian Endive, is in the shape of a large cream-colored cigar because it grows in the dark; this technique allows the leaves to remain white and more tender.

Lettuce is an angiosperm, dicotyledonous plant belonging to the Asteraceae family. It is often and erroneously called a salad, being often part of or main ingredient of the homonymous dish. It is a two-year species, the first year forms a rosette, the second the floral scape. The root system is composed of short taproot and superficial, thin and fleshy roots. The basal leaves are of various shapes, ovate or elongated, and green or reddish in color; they form a more or less compact “head” or “head”.

The green bean is the green and unripe pod of different cultivars of the common bean plant, used as a vegetable. Unlike beans, green beans are then harvested and consumed with their pods, typically before the inner seeds have matured.