ORIGIN Broccoli is essentially a large edible flower. Broccoli is a human invention. It was carefully bred by Italian farmers more than 2,000 years ago out of the wild cabbage plant. It was cultivated to have a specific taste and flavour that was more palatable for people. Wild cabbage has small flower buds and is a biennial. That means it only flowers every other year. In a controlled environment, it can be forced to reproduce itself many times. When an offspring of the cabbage grew with larger, tastier buds gardeners bred from this plant and threw away the less tasty ...
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