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See also Brassica Oleracea aka wild cabbage which we’ve cultivated into cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts, collard greens, savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, gai lan… etc

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we’ve even cultivated it into magical artefacts, romanesco broccoli

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I love the texture of cooked romanesco, it’s as if potatoes and broccoli got together and decided to have a fractal baby

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Fun fact, apparently nature can only do fractals 4 levels deep. This works for romanesco, fern, and tons of others. I am yet to find an outlier.

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