Cauliflower groups. In the 1st century AD, Pliny included what he called "cyma" among his descriptions of cultivated plants in "Natural History": ""Ex omnibus brassicae generibus suavissima est cyma,"" ("Of all the varieties of cabbage the most pleasant-tasted is "cyma""). Pliny's descriptions likely refer to the flowering heads of an earlier cultivated variety of "Brassica oleracea", but comes close to describing modern cauliflower. It is found in the writings of the Arab botanists Ibn al-'Awwam and Ibn al-Baitar, in the 12th and 13th centuries when its origins were said to be Cyprus. François Pierre La Varenne employed "chouxfleurs" in "Le cuisinier
Negros Island Region and its chairman. Koko Pimintel, the chairman, does not approve the proposal as the region was abolished in 2017 by president Rodrigo Duterte already. The plan to dissolve the region first surfaced in July 2016, when president Rodrigo Duterte became head of state and head of government. Duterte won against Mar Roxas, who was one of the initiators for the creation of the Negros Island region in 2015. Due to this, politicians from the region shifted into the PDP-Laban (Duterte's party) to garner support of the new president and to hinder, to a certain degree, the possible dissolution of the