broccoli

     

Broccoli is a plant of the Cabbage family, Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae). It is classifie as the Italica Cultivar Group of the species Brassica oleracea. Broccoli possesses abundant fleshy flower heads, usually green in color, arranged in a tree-like fashion on branches sprouting from a thick, edible stalk. The large mass of flower heads is surrounded by leaves. Broccoli most closely resembles cauliflower, which is a different cultivar group of the same species, but broccoli is green rather than white. In the United States, the term refers exclusively to the form with a single large head. This form is sometimes called "Calabrese" in the United Kingdom, where sprouting (non-heading) types and those with underdeveloped flower buds are also sold as broccoli.

Trivia about broccoli

  • This veggie's name is from the Italian for sprout, "brocco"
  • Broccoflower is a cross between a cauliflower & this veggie
  • The one that's a vegetable
  • George Bush vetoed this veggie 62 years after it was brought to the U.S. from Italy
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from the Bush Library.) I'm in a mock-up of Bush's Air Force One office. The President banned this from the menu of the presidential jet, saying he hadn't liked it since his mother made him eat it
  • This veggie was almost uneaten in the U.S. until the D'Arrigo Bros. Produce Company started marketing it in the 1920s
  • The French have Catherine de Medici to thank for introducing this sprouting Italian veggie to them
  • Brassica oleracea italica, it was once "banished" from the White House kitchen
  • In a Barbara Jean Hicks story, monsters are tricked into eating these veggies when told they're giant trees
  • The most common type of this in the U.S. is the calabrese, whose green stalks are topped by green florets
  • The name for this green-floreted veggie may be from the Latin for "arm"
  • When cooked, this 8-letter cauliflower cousin can have as much Vitamin C as an orange & as much calcium as milk
  • Toss in some florets of this vegetable whose name comes from the Italian

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