Italian immigrants brought broccoli (Brassica oleracea italica) to America in the early 1800s, and gardens haven’t been the same since. And that’s a good thing. Can you imagine life without ...

Bolting is when a plant produces hormones for flowering, but doesn't produce harvestable fruit.Bolting makes herbs and ...

Broccoli is an edible green plant in the Brassicaceae (cruciferous) family of vegetables that's known for its flowering head and nutritious stalk. A broccoli head is known as a floret and it's ...

All varieties of broccoli seem to grow well during our cooler ... the ground that sprouted plants now up to five feet tall and flowering but no fruit. Are they sterile? A. Salvaged fruits appear ...

Today flowering plant species outnumber by twenty ... The fossil resembled a single sprout plucked from a head of broccoli. The world's first flower? More like a prototype of a flower, said ...

The broccoli and cauliflower shortage could impact ... so their natural mechanism of timing flowering by chilling was overridden by their larger-than-usual size, hence flowering now rather than ...