"Vegetables" 1
"Vegetables" 2
"Fruit" 1
Spices
Other
100

Celery

What is the leaf? (specifically the petiole, which connects the leaf blade to the plant)


100

Carrot

What is the root?


Any thickened root is a storage root. It is also called a taproot when the primary root becomes thick. Also, interestingly, the very top of most root vegetables is thickened hypocotyl (the stem tissue below the cotyledons, but above true root tissue).

100

Plum

What is the fruit?


Plums are a kind of true fleshy fruit called a drupe. We eat the exocarp and mesocarp. The endocarp is the woody "stone."

100

Pepper

What is a fruit? Pepper corns are berries

100

Coffee

What is the seed? 

The fruit of the coffee plant is a berry, and the pericarp is removed from the coffee seed during processing.


200

Brussel sprouts

What are the leaves? 

Brussel sprouts are axillary leaf buds. (Delicious and cute!)

200

Asparagus

What is the shoot?

We eat asparagus when the shoot is very young, to minimize fibers and long before the leaves elongate.


200

Rhubarb

What is the leaf? (specifically the petiole, which connects the leaf blade to the plant)

200

Tumeric

What is a shoot? (underground stem called a rhizome) 

200

Sugar cane

What is the shoot? (stem) 


300

Onion

What are the leaves?

Onions are bulbs, which are made up of layers of leaves that have been modified for storage.


300

Leeks

What are the leaves?


300

Avocado

What is the fruit?


Avocados are a true fleshy fruit called a berry! All three layers of the pericarp are "soft" (enough to cut; the endocarp is a thin layer fused with the mesocarp), and the brown on the pit is the seed coat (the seed inside has white cotyledons and the embryonic root/shoot of the new plant.)

300

Ginger

What is a shoot? (and underground stem called a rhizome

300

Tea

What is a leaf? 

Tea is made from the leaves and leaf buds of the plant Camellia sinensis


400

Lotus root

What is the shoot? (underground stem called a rhizome)

Lotus is even more specialized as it underwater rhizome; the holes conduct air to the submerged tissue!


400

Cauliflower

What are the flower buds and shoot?

Cauliflower and broccoli flowers are eaten when they are immature.  Most of us just eat the stem/shoot and immature flowers, but not the leaves (though you can!).


400

Apple

What is the fruit and receptacle?


Apples and pears are pomes, what's called an accessory fruit because both the ovary wall becomes soft, sweet and fleshy, as does the fused receptacle (called a hypanthium when it encircles the ovary).

400

Saffron

What is the flower? 

Specifically, saffron is the dried stigma of Crocus sativus


400

Chocolate

What is the seed?

Chocolate is made by fermenting the fruit that surrounds the seed, then roasting and grinding the seed to make cocoa.


500

Artichoke

What is flower buds? 

The scales are sepals covering a cluster of immature flower buds! 


500

Water chestnut

What is the shoot? (It is a corm like a crocus, a thickened starchy underground stem)


500

Fig

What is primarily shoot (swollen receptacle)? 


The fig is a multiple fruit were the receptacle becomes fleshy and is filled with individual flowers that give rise to little fruit called drupes (like a cherry).  Most figs we eat are parthenocarpic though, so the seeds do not develop (are not fertilized) though the fruit and receptacle wall thicken, soften and become sweet.

500

Cloves

What is a flower bud? 

500

Licorice

What is the root and shoot?

True licorice is made from the roots and rhizome (underground stem) of the plant Glycyrrhiza glabra. It is in the pea family!


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