Saturday, June 09, 2007

M.C. Escher Vegetable



Last year this amazing cauliflower-like vegetable was for sale for a month at the Encino Farmer's Market. I bought it each Sunday and marvelled at it. The picture is inadequate. Its head was comprised of flowerets, and each one was a spiral, going to a point like a conch shell, and each floweret's spiral was also a spiral! The flowerets were also arranged/grew in a spiral form. It was chartreuse color. The flavor was bland. No one had a name for it. Wondrous vegetable.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is this your Cauliflower? Romanesco-Veronica image here: http://seeds.thompson-morgan.com/us/en/product/752/1

Sally said...

My answer to this post:
http://hamgovan.blogspot.com/
2007/06/homage-to-mc-escher.html

Sally said...

Katy, that's exactly it. The spiral within the spiral aspect of it is very amazing in person.

Thanks for your link, Sally!