Broccoli belongs to the cabbage family. I do not like either.
I never knew that! Do you like any other members of the cabbage family? I quite like broccoli.
I do not. Broccoli comes from an Italian word meaning "the flowering crest of a cabbage."
Interesting! Does Broccoli hail from Italy? Or is it grown worldwide?
in color, arranged in a tree-like structure branching out from a thick, edible stalk which is usually light green. The mass of flower heads is surrounded by leaves. Broccoli resembles cauliflower, which is a different cultivar group of the same "Brassica" species. Combined in 2017, China and India produced 73% of the world's broccoli and cauliflower crops.
Broccoli resulted from breeding of cultivated "Brassica" crops in the northern Mediterranean starting in about the sixth century BC. Since the time of the Roman
Broccoli
Broccoli is an edible green plant in the cabbage family ("Brassicas") whose large flowering head and stalk is eaten as a vegetable. The word "broccoli" comes from the Italian plural of "", which means "the flowering crest of a cabbage", and is the diminutive form of "brocco", meaning "small nail" or "sprout".
Broccoli is classified in the Italica cultivar group of the species "Brassica oleracea". Broccoli has large flower heads, usually dark green