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Origin and taxonomy of broccoli

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This popular vegetable may have been known to the Greeks, 2,500 years ago. Present-day varieties have been developed principally from forms that have arisen in Italy in the past 2,000 years. The name, meaning “bucktooth”, was probably a Latin colloquial term applied to any projecting shoots of members of the cabbage family.

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Based upon data presented in Ph.D. thesis, University of California, September, 1954.

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Buck, P.A. Origin and taxonomy of broccoli. Econ Bot 10, 250–253 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02899000

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