Is it just the easiest way around for nature to form some structures or what? Many thanks in advance
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Neither of those things were for the most part formed by nature. Cauliflower, [Here’s a cool image that shows what cauliflower looked like before humans cultivated it.](https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/8/6/5974989/kale-cauliflower-cabbage-broccoli-same-plant) It’s a type of cabbage and used to be just leaves. So the way it looks now was chosen by people based on how the plant developed through cultivation over several thousand years. That said, I don’t know if they were aiming for it to look the way it looks now, or if they were just trying to get that part of the plant to be bigger and bigger and bigger, and that happened to be what it ended up looking like.
As for chilis, before cultivation they were small red things that looked like berries. The wild plant is the ancestor of both chili peppers and bell peppers and other types of peppers. Some of them are round and sort of tomato-ey looking, some of them are bell-pepper-shaped, and some are the elongated chili shape. I don’t know if, once the long, pointy-shaped chilis became known for being hot, there was a preference to cultivate more chilis to look the same way, since that’s the look that people were familiar with and identified with hot chilis. Or whether there is something about that pointy shape that leads to more heat in the final fruit.
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