Cauliflower (Cruciferae Cruciferae) generally refers to cauliflower.

Cauliflower (scientific name: Brassica oleracea?var.?botrytis?Linnaeus) is a variant of Brassica oleracea, Brassica plant kale. It is a biennial herb, 60 to 90 centimeters high, pruinose; the stem is erect, stout, and branched; the basal and lower leaves are oblong to elliptic.

Middle and upper stem leaves smaller and sessile, oblong to lanceolate, clasping; stem tip with a creamy-white fleshy head densely packed with common pedicel, pedicels, and undeveloped flower buds; racemes terminal and axillary; flowers yellowish, later turning white; seeds broadly ellipsoid, brown. Flowering April, fruiting May.

Distribution:

Cauliflower is native to the Mediterranean coast, and later widely cultivated, mainly in India, Italy, France, Britain, the United States, Spain, Germany, Bangladesh, China, Japan and other countries. Cauliflower was introduced to China in the 19th century, and at the beginning, it was only planted in Shanghai, Tianjin and other places; later, due to the success of cultivation, it was gradually popularized all over the world, and thus widely distributed in all parts of China.

Cauliflower evolved from wild kale, the center of evolution in the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. 1490, the Geraya people introduced cauliflower from the Nafande (Levant), Cyprus, Italy, in the area around the Bay of Naples to reproduce seeds, the 17th century spread to Germany, France and Britain. 1822 from the United Kingdom to India, the mid-19th century into southern China. 1875, to Japan. In 1875 it spread to Japan.