Delicious. No garden is complete without Broccoli. Calabrese a wonderful heirloom variety with good old-fashioned taste. Our heirloom Calabrese Broccoli is sure to please with its dark green heads and tasty shoots. Popular market variety. Tight heads can grow up to 8 inches in diameter. Broccoli is believed to be the first of the cole crops to evolve from the wild species of kale or cabbage and was cultivated by the Romans. Calabrese was brought to America by Italian immigrants in the 1880s. Plant produces a very flavorful heads of broccoli. A favorite sprouting