Geeky vegetable

[pne]

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Roman Cabbage: the most fractalicious vegetable in the world. It probably tastes like infinity.

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[pantsmanticore.livejournal.com]

WHAT THE FUCK

my head asploded

[phoenixdreaming.livejournal.com]

That's a very frightening vegetable.

[tungol.livejournal.com]

Wow that's neat!

[sandypar.livejournal.com]

Very interesting.

I found this so intriguing that I googled it. I came across this Cavolo broccolo (http://www.ispave.it/ diagnosi%202001.htm). It appears to be a variety of broccoli but it is still beautifully fractal. It is amazing that it grows this way.

[sandypar.livejournal.com]

Well.....I guess that link doesn't work. LOL

If you go to google.com, click on images and type in Cavolo Romanesco in the search field it will pull up the link I provided. Weird, huh?

[pne.livejournal.com]

Well.....I guess that link doesn't work. LOL

That's because there's a space too many; try http://www.ispave.it/diagnosi%202001.htm.

It seems to be pathological, though, since that page lists what parasite is responsible for the various deformations/spots/etc.

[ladyortyger.livejournal.com]

WOW!! I AM IN GEEKY LOVE!

AWESOME. :)

[sovereigna.livejournal.com]

Wow. This is real? or someone's fun with photoshop?

[pne.livejournal.com]

I have no idea, but based on this link (http://www.ispave.it/diagnosi%202001.htm) (look at the first one, the broccoli), I imagine it's possible that it's real but not normal: the plants on that page are all blighted somehow, and if I understand correctly, it's some kind of parasite that caused the broccoli to look so fractal.

So maybe it's similar with that cabbage: something interfering with proper cell division or growth and causing them to do weird stuff.

[fridoline.livejournal.com]

It is real. I've seen it on the market. It's called Romanesco here.

[sovereigna.livejournal.com]

Fabulous!!

[robnorth.livejournal.com]

That is just way too cool. Surely to heaven there's a market somewhere in Vancouver that has those. Maybe I'll go down to Granville Island tomorrow and go romanesco-hunting.

Whaddaya think...steam the whole thing and serve with a light cheese sauce?

Or, I was once at an Indian restaurant, and another table got a tandoori cauliflower. Like, a cauliflower, covered in tandoori paste, and baked in the tandoor (clay oven). Mmmmmmmmmmm....