Broccoli comes from wild mustard, which flowers in order to reproduce.
In fact, many vegetables come from just that single plant - we’ve cultivated it in so many ways for so many years, we’ve got some very distinct varieties:
I once had someone accuse me of being bourgeoisie for eating Brussels sprouts.
I’ve found that anyone who uses bourgeoisie unironically can and should be ignored
Somehow the fact the flowers are a sickly yellow is a little bit disappointing
That’s what color they are in the “visible” spectrum, I wonder what they look like if you added in the ultraviolet spectrum that bees and other insects can see
Might just be the exposure of this photo, in my experience brassica flowers are almost always bright bold yellow.
Well, we can’t really picture a color outside the visible spectrum. Just try to imagine a color you’ve never seen…
