On Sat, 26 Dec 2015 10:44:52 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom Gave us:
Not Mandelbrot at all. Maybe closer to Julia. It is self similarity.
This variant form of cauliflower is the ultimate fractal vegetable. Its pattern is a natural representation of the Fibonacci or golden spiral, a logarithmic spiral where every quarter turn is farther from the origin by a factor of phi, the golden ratio.