curly-leafed

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curly-leafed - having curly leaves

leafy - having or covered with leaves; "leafy trees"; "leafy vegetables"

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Unlikely as it may have once seemed, kale - that dark green, iron-clad, curly-leafed cousin of the cabbage - had become a must-have item on everyone's shopping list, with celebs leading the way, sipping on green juices (and documenting it on their Instagram feeds).

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Pretty vegetables, such as artichokes, black-leaved beetroot and curly-leafed lettuces are now quite commonplace in the flower border.