Broccoli and cauliflower are not the same vegetable.

Broccoli, broccoli, commonly known as broccoli. Native to Italy, it is a common vegetable. Commonly known as green cauliflower, also known as broccoli. A biennial herb, it is a variety of kale.

Cauliflower, scientific name cauliflower , also known as kale, cauliflower, coconut flower, belongs to the cruciferous family.

Cauliflower, also known as "kale", "cauliflower", "cauliflower", "cauliflower", belongs to the cruciferous plant kale, to the huge buds for food, one of the rare vegetables.

Western bluebells, also known as stem cauliflower, broccoli, green cauliflower, Cruciferae Brassica species of kale with green flower bulbs as a product of a variant. Native to the Mediterranean coast of Europe around Italy, the end of the 19th century into China.

Western bluestem morphology, growth habit and cauliflower is basically similar, but strong, heat and cold resistance are stronger.

The plant is tall, grows more than 20 leaves and then draws out the flower stem, and the top of the flower buds are tightly grouped into flower globes, and the flower buds are greenish, so it is also called broccoli. Leaf color blue-green, gradually turning to dark blue-green, wax powder increase. Petiole is narrow and long. There are two kinds of leaf shape: broad-leaved and long-leaved.

Cauliflower is rich in vitamins and minerals, especially vitamin C content is particularly prominent, per 100 grams of content of up to 88 mg, more than twice as much as similar cabbage, rape, etc., more than twice as much as celery, apple.

Before and after the discovery of tuberculosis by the German biologist Koch, there was a pandemic of tuberculosis, and the Europeans used cauliflower juice to make medicines to treat coughing and asthma, which was cheap and effective, and was called "the poor man's doctor". Modern China and use cabbage to extract vitamin U treatment of gastric diseases, these two vegetables are really like a pair of cruciferous plants, twin brother, for medicine to make a significant contribution.

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