I had no idea cauliflower came in this many colors.
@redrummy Brassica gonna brassica. If you want to do it, humans can make brassica into it.
@redrummy These are literally all the same plant:
@jezebelkat @redrummy I learned something today.
@slyborg @jezebelkat Always keep learning. Even though I knew we'd domesticated brassica into a bewildering variety of seemingly unrelated plants, I'm still learning the extent of it.
@jezebelkat Yup, as I just said to @tezoatlipoca, I knew there are crazy amounts of various brassica cultivars, from arugula to bok choy, just not the myriad minutia of the madness.
@redrummy genetics are madness, and humans figured out how to mimic natural selection thousands of years ago. Pretty cool!
@redrummy What really breaks your noodle is it, broccoli, brussel sprouts, kholhrabi, kale and cabbage are all cultivars of the same species, brassica oleracea.
@tezoatlipoca Yup, I knew there are crazy amounts of various brassica cultivars, from arugula to bok choy, just not the myriad minutia of the madness.
@redrummy aren't they pretty?
@PrincessPie They are! Brought a "cheddar" home (I know that's just the color not the flavor) to try it
@redrummy I got a couple purple ones years ago. There's also some equally cool broccoli variants!
@PrincessPie As a couple people pointed out, we've done tons of crazy shit to brassica.
@redrummy Wouldn't it be cool if they were like magic mushrooms, "oh the yellow is called Sunshine Superman, blow your mind and detox you"