Difference between revisions of "Brassica oleracea Cymosa Group (Common names)"

• English: broccoli; calabrese¹; sprouting broccoli; Cape broccoli²
• German: Brokkoli, Spargelkohl; Broccoletti (CH), Broccoli (Au)
• Dutch: broccoli; brokelie (B)
• Swedish: broccoli, sparriskål
• Danish: broccoli, aspargeskål
• Norwegian: aspargeskål, broccoli
• Icelandic:
  

• French: brocoli; brocoli à jets, brocoli branchu³; brocoletti, chou-asperge (CH)
• Italian: broccolo, cavolo broccolo, cavolbroccolo (pl. cavoli broccoli, cavolbroccoli); brocoletti (CH) / broccoli, broccoletti
• Spanish: brécol, bróculi; brócoli espárrago, brocolata; brócoli calabrés (Arg)
• Catalan: bróquil, col-i-bróquil
• Portuguese: couve-bróculo, bróculo; brócolo (Br)
• Romanian: brocoli
  

• Russian: брокколи, спаржевая капуста - brokkoli, sparževaja kapusta
• Polish: brokuł, brokuł włoski
• Czech: prokolice
• Slovak:
• Bulgarian: броколи - brokoli
• Croatian: kaulin, kavulin
• Serb:
• Slovenian: kavolin; brokola, broccoli
  

• Latvian:
• Lithuanian:
• Albanian: brokoli
• Greek: μπρόκολο, μπρόκολο παραπούλι / παραπούλια (pl.) - brokolo, brokolo parapouli / parapoulia
• Turkish: brokkoli, broccoli, cibes
• Maltese:
• Hungarian: brokkoli, spárgakel
• Finnish: parsakaali
• Estonian:
  

Sources and commentaries

Broccolis form a very diverse group. Most of them are grown and used only locally, particularly in Italy and at a least extent in France.

(1) Designates only the headed dark green form bred in the USA.

(2) Designates a branching form with purple flowers.

(3) Designates only branched forms.

• French
  • The sprouts of all kinds of cabbages (particularly fodder kales) have been used in the past in France, under such local names as brocolis, piochons (Touraine), broutes (South-West), brondons, cimettes or tendrons. In Belgium, they were called chou à jets, chou blond à couper, chou à beurre.
  • Nowadays, a commercial product of Ramosa Group is sold as 'brocoli-feuilles' at the beginning of winter (when there is no inflorescence), and it becomes 'brocoli' when it has an inflorescence in the middle. MC
• English
  • In the United States, new cultivars of sprouting broccoli, bred through hybridization with kai lan, are being promoted under trademarks, such as Bimi, Tendergreen and Broccolini.
• Greek
  • Sprouts are called τσιμούλια, τσιμπούλια - tsimoulia, tsiboulia in Crete.
• Portuguese
  • Sprouts are called hortos.