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 Principles followed by Rules and Recommendations that are subdivided into Articles. Amendments to the "Cultivated Plant Code" are prompted by international symposia for cultivated plant taxonomy which allow for rulings made by the "International Commission on the Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants". Each new "Cultivated Plant Code" includes a summary of the changes made to the previous version and these have also been summarised for the period 1953 to 1995. Recent concerns have focused on international communication on cultivated plant taxonomy, organisation of international symposia, and general communication on topics of interest. In 1988 a "Horticultural Taxonomy Group" ("Hortax") was formed