Radish is a type of radish, belonging to the fresh roots of the Raphanus genus in the cabbage family.There are many varieties of radishes, including white, red, and green, but white radishes are the most common.Radicchio is one or two years old herbaceous plant.The root is fleshy, long oval, spherical, or conical, with skin that can be green, white, pink, or purple.Stems are upright, stout, cylindrical, hollow, and branched from the base.Basal leaves and lower stem leaves have long petioles, usually deeply pinnately lobed, covered in coarse hair, with 1 to 3 side lobes, marginally toothed or notched;Middle and upper stem leaves are lanceolate to linear, gradually becoming smaller towards the top, unlobed or slightly divided, not hugging the stem.Inflorescence is a raceme, terminal and axillary.Flowers are light pink or white.
