Romanesco is pretty much the only brassica that regularly appears as a computer screensaver. Math and vegetable lovers alike can appreciate its gorgeous pale green fractal florets -- a mesmerizing ...

This week I’ve been investigating fractals. I’ll give you some examples of everyday fractals to get us started. See if you can find the common thread. Snowflakes, snails, ferns. Bonnie Blodgett Yup, ...

You've probably seen it before at farmers' markets or at restaurants. It's what cauliflower would look like if you just swallowed a handful of magic mushrooms. With its mesmerizing vegetal fractals ...

Scientists take a crack at recreating the hypnotic fractal spirals of the Romanesco cauliflower. Credit...Evan Sung for The New York Times Supported by By Sabrina Imbler Monks once hoped to turn lead ...

The Romanesco cauliflower, one of the strangest looking vegetables because of its fractal florets, owes its unique shape to the fact that it forms from failed flowers. Like regular cauliflowers, ...

Monks once hoped to turn lead into gold through alchemy. But consider the cauliflower instead. It takes just two genes to transform the ordinary stems, stalks and flowers of the weedy, tasteless ...

Some people look at Romanesco broccoli and think space alien. Others get all excited and exclaim “fractals!” Fractals are identical, repetitive patterns in nature of varying size. The tiniest floret ...

Of all the produce available at farmers markets, far and away the most spectacular is the Romanesco cauliflower. Typically smaller than a standard cauliflower, vivid chartreuse and conical in shape, ...

It looks far more like sculpture than vegetable, or maybe the misbegotten result of some sort of Space Age science experiment — food from the future, circa 1975. Its fractal appearance notwithstanding ...

While you probably associate gardening with springtime, this unique veggie should be started in mid-winter for the best ...