The entire plant is broccoli. The part you like to eat is 'florets'
Shoot with flowering buds
Broccoli is a vegetable in it's own right.
A Flower.
The whole plant is Broccoli. RThe part you eat is the curd in the middle which is actually the flower buds.
vegetable or root
Flower
Since we eat the flowering part of the broccoli plant, it is a fruit. When we eat the reproductive part of a plant, we are eating fruit. Vegetables come from the vegetative part of a plant such as lettuce, carrots, potatoes, spinach, etc.YES
When your're eating Broccoli, your acually eating the flower buds of the plant. if you ever grow it and wait too long, the the part of broccoli you eat will turn into lots of yellow flowers.
The broccoli head is actually the collective flower buds of the plant. Each of the tiny green parts of the broccoli head will open into a yellow flower if left uncut. This head rises up from the center of the plant.
When your're eating Broccoli, your acually eating the flower buds of the plant. if you ever grow it and wait too long, the the part of broccoli you eat will turn into lots of yellow flowers.
The broccoli head is actually the collective flower buds of the plant. Each of the tiny green parts of the broccoli head will open into a yellow flower if left uncut. This head rises up from the center of the plant.
Broccoli is not a fruit because it is a plant, namely a Cabbage (Brassicaceae) plant. Broccoli possesses abundant fleshy flower heads, usually green in color, arranged in a tree-like fashion on branches sprouting from a thick, edible stalk. The large mass of flower heads is surrounded by leaves. Broccoli most closely resembles cauliflower, which is a cultivar group of the same species of Brassica. I'm not sure what the previous post is saying. Fruits are parts of plants. Although the rest of the answer is correct, in fact broccoli is a flower which becomes part of the fruit. So it is in fact an immature fruit, not the leafy or vegetative part of the plant or what we would call a vegetable. Broccoli is a fruit. If the edible part of the plant comes from the reproductive part of the plant, it is a fruit. If the edible part of the plant comes from the vegetative part of the plant, it is a vegetable (such as carrots, potatoes, radishes, lettuce, spinach, etc.) We eat the flowering part of the broccoli. Flowers house the reproductive organs.
About 200 ounces. -The stalks you see in store are only a small part of the plant.