Xref: utzoo rec.food.cooking:18692 sci.bio:3212 rec.gardens:4461 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!sun!ikkyu.Eng.Sun.COM!alan From: alan@ikkyu.Eng.Sun.COM (Alan Marr, Animation) Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking,sci.bio,rec.gardens Subject: Re: Broccoflower Message-ID: <138473@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 6 Jul 90 17:08:42 GMT References: <31477@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@sun.Eng.Sun.COM Reply-To: alan@sun.UUCP Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 30 In article hughes@blizzard.Berkeley.EDU (Eric Hughes) writes: >In article <31477@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert >Thorson) writes: >>Anybody know the scoop on this "broccoflower" vegetable? I bought >>one for $1.79 today after hearing about it on TV! >>On TV, they said it is a cross between a broccoli and a cauliflower >>which was discovered in a farm in Holland a couple of years ago. > >If I'm thinking of what you're thinking, this vegetable also goes by >the name of Romanesco broccoli; it has pointed, spiraling flower >arrangements and is a pale yellow-green. >... >Cabbage (Brassica oleracea capitata) >Broccoli (B. oleracea italica) I think that Romanesque Broccoli is a distinct variety (of broccoli) from the Broccoflower. I have seen and eaten both. They have the same color, flavor, and general shape, but true Romanesque Broccoli has a well formed recursive double nested spiral pattern of the buds, sub-buds, sub-sub-buds, etc. whereas Broccoflower is jumbled up and less organized. I tried growing R. Br. last year, but it never headed out. It went straight to flowers. I later found that this is called "bolting", and may have been due to the cool temperatures when it was budding. (c)Copyright 1990 Alan Marr. Permission given for electronic transmission and storage, but not for reproduction by mechanical, photographic, or optical means. Disclaimer: I accept no liability. My opinions are not necessarily anyone elses. "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is." Noel Coward, Private Lives.