Broccoli is an edible Green plant in the Cabbage Family (family Brassicaceae, genus Brassica) Whose large Flowering head and stalk is eaten as a Vegetable. The word Broccoli comes from the Italian plural of Broccoli, which means "the Flowering crest of a Cabbage", and is the Diminutive form of Brocco, Meaning "small nail" or "sprout". Broccoli is classified in the Italica cultivar group of the species Brassica Oleracea.