Editing Cauliflower (section)

== In culture ==
{{See also|Romanesco broccoli#Fractal structure}}
Cauliflower has been noticed by [[mathematician]]s for its distinct [[fractal dimension]],<ref>Walker, John. (2005-03-22) [http://www.fourmilab.ch/images/Romanesco/ Fractal Food]. Fourmilab.ch. Retrieved on 2013-09-03.</ref><ref>[http://www.iwriteiam.nl/HaCF.html Description of the Julia sets of the cabbage fractal]. Iwriteiam.nl. Retrieved on 2013-09-03.</ref> calculated to be roughly 2.8.<ref>{{cite journal| author = Kim, Sang-Hoon |arxiv=cond-mat/0409763| title = Fractal Structure of a White Cauliflower| journal = Journal of the Korean Physical Society | volume = 46 | issue = 2 | pages = 474–477 | url = http://icpr.snu.ac.kr/resource/wop.pdf/J01/2005/046/R02/J012005046R020474.pdf| bibcode = 2004cond.mat..9763K|year=2004}}</ref><ref>{{Cite arXiv|eprint=cond-mat/0411597|last1=Kim|first1=Sang-Hoon|title=Fractal dimensions of green broccoli and a white cauliflower|year=2004}}</ref> One of the fractal properties of cauliflower is that every branch, or "module", is similar to the entire cauliflower. Another quality, also present in other plant species, is that the angle between "modules", as they become more distant from the center, is 360 degrees divided by the [[golden ratio]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Damrosch |first=Barbara |date=1 April 2010 |title=Romanesco cauliflower is a striking example of fractals |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/30/AR2010033003408.html |access-date=13 November 2024 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref>

The fancied resemblance of the shape of a boxer's ear to a cauliflower gave rise to the term "[[cauliflower ear]]".