Abstract: There is described a stump removing tool particularly designed for separating cauliflower flowerets from the stump thereof. It may also be useful for coring cabbages. The tool comprises a cylinder having an upper cutting edge and a nose piece, the apex of which includes meridian blades having cutting edges. When the nose piece is penetrating into the cauliflower head, the base of which is placed on the cylinder, the cauliflower flowerets are spread while the meridian blades first cut the cauliflower head center into tapers; then, the inside cylinder cut the stump into tapers which fall. A machine is also described which comprises a conveyor belt adapted to be advanced step by step, the belt carrying regularly spaced tool cylinders, and a vertical frame. A slide is in the frame and over the mounted tool nose pieces.