Rakesh: just as I suspected... this is nothing bad... if it was not tempered with in anyway by the seller, or the buyer or the photographer to fool us.... if it is as it wa sin the farm or the garden... its harmless...
its natural... read this gardening column... we see this mostly in first time or new gardener or new farmer not used to blanching the cauliflower completely.... http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/lifestyles/homegarden/gardening/s_635172.html Usha di ======= On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Rakesh Biswas <rakesh7bis...@gmail.com>wrote: > Usha Di, Here are the pictures. Do let us have your inputs. regards, > > rakesh > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Saptarshi Mandal <dr.man...@gmail.com> > Date: Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 1:05 PM > Subject: Suspicious Cauliflower > To: prashunlimi...@gmail.com, Rakesh Biswas <rakesh7bis...@gmail.com> > > > My guess: > Someone might have either painted gential violet (antifungal) or some such > dye or may be some such stained mixture of branching hormone was painted on > half grown cauliflower... > and then the newly grown buds have covered the stain up and only a > subapical segment is showing a ring-stain. > > > -- Usha di ===========