Sprouting cauliflower
Channel: Eastern Broccoli
Date: 2020-08-08

Sprouting cauliflower is an unusual type that is unfamiliar to most in the US. 

The head forms initially as a slightly loose cauliflower head. Then it begins to bolt, making the long 'sprouts' that give it its name. Developmentally, this is a weird behavior because this stage is intended to get the individual flowers distributed far enough apart that they can be pollinated. But these reproductive meristems have not even begun to make flower buds. 

Culinarily, this odd behavior makes for a distinctive vegetable. 

The variety is 'Fioretto 70'.

This video was made on August 7, 2020 (58 days after transplanting) in Geneva, NY by Thomas Björkman, Cornell University.


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