<Tr> <Th> Cultivar group </Th> <Td> Italica </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Origin </Th> <Td> Italy, more than 2,000 years ago </Td> </Tr> <P> Broccoli is an edible green plant in the cabbage family whose large flowering head is eaten as a vegetable . </P> <P> The word broccoli comes from the Italian plural of broccolo, which means "the flowering crest of a cabbage", and is the diminutive form of brocco, meaning "small nail" or "sprout". Broccoli is often boiled or steamed but may be eaten raw . </P>

Which vegetable gets its name from the latin word small nail