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
Cultivated plant taxonomy loosely equivalent to ranks in the "Botanical Code"). This feature is also referred to in the Preamble to the "Cultivated Plant Code" which states that ""The purpose of giving a name to a taxon is not to indicate its characters or history, but to supply a means of referring to it and to indicate to which category it is assigned."" Fourthly, cultivated plant taxonomy serves a particular community of people: the "Botanical Code" focuses on the needs of plant taxonomists as they attempt to maintain order and stability for the scientific names of all plants, while the "Cultivated Plant Code"