Fruit and flower vegetables
The plants whose edible parts are the fruits and the flowers, they are
fruits or buds of flowers in reality but are used as vegetables. Vegetable
fruits are fleshy and contain seeds. They present great variety in
appearance, structure, and composition. They are
- Ackee (Blighia sapida)
- Armenian cucumber (Cucumis melo Flexuosus group)
- Avocado (Persea americana)
- Bitter melon (Momordica charantia)
- Breadfruit (Artocarpus attilis)
- Caigua (Cyclanthera pedata)
- Cayenne pepper (Capsicum frutescens)
- Chayote (Sechium edule)
- Chile pepper (Capsicum annuum Longum group)
- Cucumber (Cucumis sativus)
- Eggplant or Aubergine (Solanum melongena)
- Globe Artichoke (Cynara scolymus)
- Luffa (Luffa acutangula, Luffa aegyptiaca)
- Malabar gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia)
- Marrow (Cucurbita pepo)
- Matoki (Musa sapientium)
- Olive (Olea europaea)
- Parwal (Trichosanthes dioica)
- Perennial cucumber (Coccinia grandis)
- Pumpkin (Cucurbita maxima, Cucurbita pepo)
- Snake gourd (Trichosanthes cucumerina)
- Sweet pepper (Capsicum annuum Grossum group)
- Tinda (Praecitrullus fistulosus)
- Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum)
- Winter melon (Benincasa hispida)
- West Indian gherkin (Cucumis anguria)
- Zucchini or Courgette (Cucurbita pepo)
Root, Tuber and Bulb vegetables: The varieties included in this
class are closely related as to food value.
Bulbs are Usually grow just below the surface of the ground and
produce a fleshy, leafy shoot above ground. Bulbs usually consist of
layers or clustered segments. E.g. Onion, Garlic.
Tubers are vegetables which grow underground on the root of a
plant. E.g. Sweet potatoes, beets, radishes.
Roots are a long or round-shaped taproot.
- Asparagus (Asparagus officinalis)
- Cardoon (Cynara cardunculus)
- Celeriac (Apium graveolens var. rapaceum)
- Celery (Apium graveolens)
- Elephant Garlic (Allium ampeloprasum var. ampeloprasum)
- Florence fennel (Foeniculum vulgare var. dulce)
- Garlic (Allium sativum)
- Kohlrabi (Brassica oleracea Gongylodes group)
- Kurrat (Allium ampeloprasum var. kurrat)
- Leek (Allium porrum)
- Onion (Allium cepa)
- Prussian asparagus (Ornithogalum pyrenaicum)
- Rhubarb (Rheum x cultorum)
- Shallot (Allium cepa Aggregatum group)
- Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum)
- Beetroot (Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris)
- Carrot (Daucus carota)
- Cassava (Manihot esculenta)
- Celeriac (Apium graveolens)
- Chinese artichoke (Stachys affinis)
- Ginger (Zingiber officinale)
- Potato (Solanum tuberosum)
- Radish (Raphanus sativus)
- Salsify (Scorzonera hispanica)
- Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
- Taro (Colocasia spp.)
- Turnip (Brassica rapa Rapifera group)
- Yam (Dioscorea spp.)