Beautiful Beginning of Week Sir. Nice Shots On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:10 AM, ushadi Micromini <[email protected] > wrote:
> in NY it was Broccoli... in the upscale food markets or farmers' > markets... regardless of what the taxonomists come up with... > > FRACTAL adjective is so apt, one of the educated farmer had once labelled > his with the word.... before the days of my digital camera going with me > everywhere. > > Thanks for taking pictures of this... > > Usha di > > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:42 AM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Dear friends >> I am inaugurating the Brassicaceae Week with an interesting vegetable >> photographed today from Farmer's market in Mountain view, California. >> >> Brassica oleracea 'Romanesco' >> A fractal food that defies taxonomy >> Taxonomists are not able to decide whether to classify it under var. >> botrytis (cauliflower) or var. italica (broccoli) >> Who knows we may soon find it in Indian markets (or it may have already >> reached?) >> Photographed in Mountain view Farmers' Market, California >> >> >> >> -- >> Dr. Gurcharan Singh >> Retired Associate Professor >> SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 >> Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. >> Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 >> http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ >> http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ >> >> -- >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > Usha di > =========== > > -- > > > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964 --
