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Broccoli is a plant of the Cabbage family. It closely resembles cauliflower, which is a different cultivar group of the same species, but broccoli is green rather than white.

The word broccoli comes from the Italian broccolo, meaning shoot or stalk.

Brocolli is thought to have originated from the wild cabbage. Wild cabbage originated along the northern and western coasts of the Mediterranean, where it was apparently domesticated thousands of years ago. That domesticated cabbage was eventually bred into widely varying forms, including broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, kale, kohlrabi, and brussels sprouts.

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