South for South, without being quite a culinary Arlésienne, the zucchini flower is only delivered sparingly. To find it, it is better to get up in the early morning from the markets, put yourself in a market gardener's pocket or cultivate it yourself as its production is sensitive. Carried by a vegetable, it is nonetheless a flower. A cute Côte d'Azur which, barely hatched, barely picked, will not be better than two days before withering.
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From April to October (the beautiful years), the zucchini releases an opulent flowering. One would almost dare to write that it explodes its petals as one carries a flame, in a singular orange fire. The male flower is installed on a long stem and has stamens. The female has a thicker stem and contains the pistil. Goldsmith producers, the Varois Jean-Baptiste Anfosso, Bruno Cayron and Jérôme Vernale, tiercé elected by Christophe Bacquié, will surely tell you that the male flowers are preferably harvested to leave the zucchini
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