What is this vegetable? [Solved!]

Cyvros

Just wondering what this vegetable is. My mum and I think it might be a mustard green. Thanks for any help.

gigEsmalls

Taste it, that may help.

Rook

Looks like a caterpillar has eaten most of it.

Szechuanosaurus

Um, yeah. Are you sure that's a 'vegetable' and not just a tree leaf that has been purposefully torn? It looks awfully waxy to be a brassica of some sort. At least, any I'd want to eat.

It certainly has a similar shape to rapa or juncea but...it doesn't look quite right.

Chanus

Dandelion? It's used in Mesclun salad.

Edit: Hmm... now that the image is a little larger it doesn't look quite the same.

Tinuz

I don't think it is torn, the edge looks too regular to me (double saw tooth).

EDIT: How about this? It doesn't look exactly the same, but it is mustard green (Which seems to have a rather plastic shape)/.

Thylacine

It definitely looks like mustard. Perhaps white mustard? It seems to have the whole 'big leaf, 2 smaller leaves' going on. But not quite the same.

Chanus

Tinuz wrote: »

I don't think it is torn, the edge looks too regular to me (double saw tooth).

EDIT: How about this? It doesn't look exactly the same, but it is mustard green (Which seems to have a rather plastic shape)/.

Could be mustard green (also used in Mesclun salad and may be the leaf I was thinking about). Definitely looks closer than the dandelion.

Depending on the age of the plant, the leaves will look similar at various ages, but not necessarily exactly the same.

Dr. Gero

Does it have a strong odor? I could be way off (since it looks like most of it was eaten by bugs) but it could be a herb used in Korean cooking. Link to said herb/veggie/whatever.

Kivutar

We have some variety of lettuce in our garden that has a leaf shape pretty similar to that, somewhat bitter, but still pretty mild.

Cyvros

Nah, definitely not eaten by caterpillars - all the leaves of the plant are like that (and they're regular kind of edges). It doesn't have a peculiar smell, but it smells like something I've eaten before in some fancy salads.

Cyvros

We managed to get a hold of the nursery we got it from and it turns out it's some kind of milk thistle.

EskimoDave

Cicerbita alpina, its a sow thistle.

Cyvros

Oh, awesome. Thanks for that, and thanks for all the help, guys'n'gals.