Chicory/Endive

There is understandable confusion over chicory and endive, which belong to the same family. The first is cichorium endiva, the second cichorium intybus. What we call endive is the pale, compact, spear-shaped plant that the French and Belgians also call endive. (However the British call this chicory.) What we call chicory, curly endive or frisée – the large, loose-headed, sometimes frizzy, lettuce-like plant – the French call chicorée or sometimes chicorée frisée and the British call endive or frisée.