Brassica oleracea Botrytis Group (Common names)

Brassica oleracea Botrytis Group

Brassica oleracea Groupe Botrytis

Names in common use

• English: cauliflower; broccoli, winter cauliflower, heading broccoli¹
• German: Blumenkohl; Karfiol (D, Au)
• Dutch: bloemkool; winterbloemkool¹
• Swedish: blomkål; vinterblomkål¹
• Danish: blomkål; vinterblomkål¹
• Norwegian: blomkål
• Icelandic: blómkál
  

• French: chou-fleur; chou-fleur d'hiver, brocoli¹
• Italian: cavolfiore; cavolo fiore, cavolofiore (pl. cavolfiori, cavolifiori); cavolo broccolo¹
• Spanish: coliflor
• Catalan: col-i-flor, col-flor
• Portuguese: couve-flor
• Romanian: conopidă, karfiol
  

• Russian: цветная капуста, капуста цветная - cvetnaja kapusta, kapusta cvetnaja
• Polish: kalafior
• Czech: květák, karfiol
• Slovak: karfiol
• Bulgarian: цветно зеле, карфиол, карнабит - cvetno zele, karfiol, karnabit
• Croatian: cvjetača
• Serb: карфиол - karfiol
• Slovenian: karfijola, karfiola, cvetača
  

• Albanian: lulelakër, lule lakër (lulelakra with article)
• Greek: κουνουπίδι; κωνοπίδι, καρναμπίκι, καρναμπίτι, καρναμπίθι - kounoupidhi; konopidhi, karnabiki, karnabiti, karnabithi
• Turkish: karnabahar, karnıbahar
• Hungarian: karfiol, virágkal
• Finnish: kukkakaali
  

Sources and commentaries

(1) Designate winter types (with white head, identical with summer or autumn cauliflower). The name 'broccoli' has a historical background, but has been discouraged as confusing.