Difficult to gather a sense of scale from a photo like this, suffice to say this exuberant example of a female zucchini flower of the costasta romanesco variety is the size of a dinner plate across!
Zucchini were developed in Italy, hence the name (Zucca, meaning
pumpkin plus -ina, meaning little). I much prefer the name 'zucchini'
and was rather pleased to note that 'courgette' is merely the French
word for...zucchini!
Deep inside this female (!) flower a bee is working its magic.
What we eat is really the swollen ovary of the female zucchini flower - the male flowers are a bit smaller and grow on long stems off the main stem of the plant. Both flowers are edible and often are steamed, sauteed or stuffed and baked, dipped in tempura batter and fried,...something to try.
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