Editing Broccoli (section)

==Varieties==
There are three commonly grown types of broccoli.<ref name=":0" /> The most familiar is ''Calabrese broccoli'', often referred to simply as "broccoli", named after [[Calabria]] in Italy. It has large {{convert|10|to(-)|20|cm|in|0|adj=on}} green heads and thick stalks. It is a cool-season annual crop. ''Sprouting broccoli'' (white or purple) has a larger number of heads with many thin stalks.<ref>{{cite web|title=Broccoli|url=https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-your-own/vegetables/broccoli|website=[[Royal Horticultural Society]]|access-date=24 March 2020|archive-date=24 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200324233555/https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/grow-your-own/vegetables/broccoli|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Purple cauliflower'' or ''violet cauliflower'' is a type of broccoli grown in [[Europe]] and North America. It has a head shaped like cauliflower but consists of many tiny flower buds. Sometimes, but not always, it has a purple cast to the tips of the flower buds. Purple cauliflower may also be white, red, green, or other colors.<ref>{{citation|last=Branca|first=Ferdinando|title=Cauliflower and Broccoli|date=2008|work=Vegetables I: Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Chenopodicaceae, and Cucurbitaceae|pages=151–186|editor1-last=Prohens|editor1-first=Jaime|editor2-last=Nuez|editor2-first=Fernando|series=Handbook of Plant Breeding|volume=1|place=New York, NY|publisher=Springer|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-0-387-30443-4_5|isbn=978-0-387-30443-4}}</ref>

''Beneforté'' is a variety of broccoli containing 2–3 times more [[glucoraphanin]] and produced by crossing broccoli with a wild [[Brassica]] variety, ''Brassica oleracea'' var ''villosa''.<ref>{{cite web|title=British research leads to UK-wide launch of Beneforté broccoli|url=https://quadram.ac.uk/beneforte_uk_wide/|website=Quadram Institute|access-date=24 March 2020|date=25 June 2012}}</ref>