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This is a part of the vegetable world where nomenclature gets confusing. To growers in the mild, coastal areas of Devon and Cornwall, ‘broccoli’ means late-winter cauliflower. Traditionally, to gardeners and cooks, broccoli is an abbreviation for our wonderfully winter-hardy purple sprouting broccoli. But over the last 30 years, for most people broccoli has come to mean calabrese, the uniform, succulent, green-headed impostor from Calabria in southern Italy, and the version most commonly found on supermarket shelves.