Lettuce: more varied than ever
Feb 24, 2020
2 minutes
BILL KERR
Lettuce (Lactuca sativa) goes back a long way; it has been cultivated for more than 4 500 years. As with most vegetables, it looked very different when first discovered in the Middle East to the roundish, leafy vegetable we enjoy today.
Lettuce started off as an erect plant
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