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It is not, with broccoli and cauliflower you literally eat the buds, or how they are called in English, and they can of course flower.

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funkajunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
We call them “florets”, which means “small flower”

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ilovecheese@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
And butterflies love the flowers! All my broccoli went to flower (bolted) last year!

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Bldck@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
In English it’s called a floret. Which hints at its true form

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