Italian Broccoli is actually a HYBRID vegetable, a cross between broccoli and Chinese broccoli that was invented in 1993. ... Lastly, we have broccoli rabe, also known as rapini, which is not a broccoli derivative at all and is instead more closely related to the turnip
In the UK, this vegetable is known as Rapini or Turnip Tops, in the US, Broccoli Rabe or Raab and in one of the places of its birth, so to speak, Italy, it has the more romantic sounding name of Cime de Rapa. Ok, romantic to us non Italian speakers!