Incredible Fractal Vegetable I found at the supermarket!!

I was out shopping for groceries today at our local Lidl shop and as I wandered past this crazy looking thing I was so shocked that I had to stop and come back to just stare at it for a little bit.

I have honestly never seen a vegetable like this in my whole entire life, it was so incredibly beautiful to me I wondered if it could even be real, or if it was actually edible! Then as I was staring at this crazy patterned thing an old Spanish Yaya (grandma) sauntered up, casually picked one out of the box and headed for the till.

I guess it's a common thing here?

Well I have no idea what this thing is or what it tastes like, but obviously I had to buy one. I think it is some kind of Cauliflower? If anyone knows what it is please let me know, I'm very curious.

So anyhow, what really enthralled me about his crazy thing was the super intricate fractal pattern that it displays.

What is a fractal you ask?

Well there are different types of fractals, but essentially what a fractal is, is a "self same" pattern, or a pattern that repeats itself as it gets smaller and smaller. I couldn't help but break out my cheap old macro extension tubes to see how far this one went, and as it turns out, it's a great way of describing what a fractal pattern is.

Here we see a shot of the whole thing. Pretty beautiful right?

See how the patterns of the little nodes repeats itself in a sort of spiral all the way around the vegetable? Well look what happens when we get a little closer...

Do you see how each little node is basically a copy of the whole? Pretty amazing right??!!?? Let's push in a little closer...

More nodes copying the structure of the entire thing! Ok, how far does this go? Let's push in as close as I could get with my setup, and I still had to crop the image massively to get this close...

How incredible is that!!?? It's STILL repeating at this incredibly tiny level!! To give you a bit of an idea how close we are now, I'll show you the full frame of the above photo.

Do you see how even the tiniest nodes on the tiny little nodes are displaying the fractal pattern? It's amazing!

Or maybe I'm just a big huge nerd and find these silly things incredible, hahaha.

Well anyways I found this crazy vegetable both beautiful and fascinating. In fact I would be interested to get this thing under a microscope to see just how far down the pattern really goes! But alas, I don't have one of those.

Oh well, I hope you enjoyed this crazy vegetable as much as I did!

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