Do you know what this is?

 

Not broccoli.  It is a wasabi radish getting ready to bloom.

 

They look similar because they are in the Cruciferous family.  They all bloom like this:  first the broccoli-type head, then opening out with 4-petaled flowers.  Arugula flowers are creamy white, mustard and kale flowers are bright yellow, and broccoli flowers are pale yellow.  The blooms on this radish are pinkish-purple.  

 

Once the radishes go to flower and seed, the roots are too tough to eat, but the flowers and seed pods of the radish are edible.    So when they bloom, we just pick off the flowers and put them in our salad.  Mmm, radishy.

 

 

HAPPY GARDENING!!!