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"George.com" writes:
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| Some of the 'broccoli' plants have produced no florets at all. There is a
| central stem and large cabbage type leaves all the way up the stem. I now
| wonder whether in with the broccoli seed I got some type of cabbage seed as
| well?
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| It is not cabbage as I know it, the tightly headed variety. I understand the
| origin of cabbage was an open leaf variety dubbed Romano in various places.
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| Can anyone give me some direction here on what I may have? Google search has
| not shown me anything. Many thanks.

Look up "kale", "collard greens" and so on. There are lots of such
non-heading varieties of cabbage, and it is correct that the original
ones were like that.

| ps I have given a couple of the 'cabbages' to the neighbours to try so I
| will find out in due time whether they are edible or not.

Nothing like using your neighbours for dangerous experiments :-)

Yes, they are edible.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.