fruits & vegetables :: CULTIVATED :: Brassicaceae » Brassica oleracea var. italica

[Dinesh Valke]

Brassicaceae (mustard, or cabbage family) » Brassica oleracea var. italica


BRAS-ee-ka -- from the classical Latin name for cabbage
awl-lur-RAY-see-uh -- edible vegetable
ee-TAL-ih-kuh or eye-TAL-ih-kuh -- of or from Italy


commonly known as: asparagus broccoli, broccoli, calabrese, Cape broccoli, heading broccoli, purple cauliflower, sprouting broccoli, winter broccoli


Distribution: only cultivated


Edible use:

... the flower-head (as VEGETABLE)

[Gurcharan Singh]

Dinesh ji

Nice to see the plant. Here is the end product the inflorescence bud.

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
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[Gurcharan Singh]

I am attaching now, forgot earlier

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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

[Balkar Arya]

Delicious Vegetable Gurcharan Ji and Dinesh Ji, i am growing this in my fields presently plants are small so will post later

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Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
Haryana-132103
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