Broccoli Romanesco, Broccoflower

Also Romanesco cauliflower, Roman broccoli

Also Cauli-Broc

If you assume that the vegetables in these photographs are cauliflowers—not broccoli, as their names suggest—you are probably correct, according to the majority of vegetable classifiers. Other classifiers think that broccoli and cauliflower have enough overlapping characteristics to wear both names. There would be fewer problems if we could just stick with scientific nomenclature. The common names for the green cauliflowers, for reasons related to marketing and translation from the Italian (see broccoli raab) have landed them in the broccoli bin, under “B”; still, cauliflower is what they are.