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My parents had some lettuce on their balcony but failed to harvest it in time so it grew taller and taller. They gave it to a friend as a birthday present and nobody could say what weird plant they had brought.
Wait till it flowers! It has a really nice inflorescence, although I think other Lactuca species are more beautiful overall :)
I… don’t know enough about broccoli to figure out if this is a meme or not.
I don’t know enough about memes to figure out if this is broccoli or not.
And at this point I’m too afraid to ask
It is not, with broccoli and cauliflower you literally eat the buds, or how they are called in English, and they can of course flower.
And butterflies love the flowers! All my broccoli went to flower (bolted) last year!
In English it’s called a floret. Which hints at its true form
This is called “bolting” in gardening terms, when a plant goes to flower or seed.
Not exactly. It is bolting when it starts sending up a flowering stem, the very beginning of flowering. Every broccoli I’ve ever eaten has bolted, but not many of them have bolted and flowered.
Does it taste good?
Typically when plants flower they become more bitter. There are outliers but the general rule holds. Broccoli is better before it flowers fs
So do the flowers smell like a fart too?
For anyone in NE North America, our native Golden Alexander plant can be eaten in a similar way and tastes quite a bit like broccoli. As a bonus, it’s a host plant for black swallowtail butterflies, so it’s a wonderful addition to the garden!
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
Well, we can’t really picture a color outside the visible spectrum. Just try to imagine a color you’ve never seen…
Point being they might have wonderful patterns or be beautifully vibrant in the UV spectrum, but those pigments don’t look like anything beyond a sickly yellow if all you can see is the human visible light spectrum
Might just be the exposure of this photo, in my experience brassica flowers are almost always bright bold yellow.
