Sunday March 7th's "new word" on The Word Spy

broccoflower (BRAWK.uh.flow.ur) n. A cross between broccoli and cauliflower. Also: brocco-flower.
Today, along with white cauliflower in markets, you'll find broccoflower (less expensive than white) and occasionally purple cauliflower. Broccoflower originated with a green cauliflower grown in Italy and has heads ranging from lime-green to yellow-green and a taste more like cauliflower (but a little sweeter) than broccoli. Most are smaller, lighter in weight, and less crisp and dense than white cauliflower.
—Natalie Haughton, "Cauliflower; It's the new potato," The Daily News of Los Angeles, March 3, 2004

let me just say, you heard it here first (see link left) but only because i heard it from ALW. apparently, it's a very stress-inducing hybrid vegetable...