List of vegetables

Template:Short description Template:Dynamic list This is a list of plants that have a culinary role as vegetables. "Vegetable" can be used in several senses, including culinary, botanical and legal. This list includes botanical fruits such as pumpkins, and does not include herbs, spices, cereals and most culinary fruits and culinary nuts. Edible fungi are not included in this list.

Legal vegetables are defined for regulatory, tax and other purposes. An example would include the tomato, which is botanically a berry (fruit), but culinarily a vegetable according to the United States.

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Bok choy or Chinese cabbage in flower

Leafy and salad vegetables

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Garden Cress

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Iceberg lettuce field in northern Santa Barbara County.

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Spinach in flower

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Miner's lettuce

Fruits

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Pumpkins

Edible flowers

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Calabaza flowers

Podded vegetables

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"Common bean", "kidney bean", "haricot bean", "pinto bean", "navy bean", and "green bean" are all varieties of the species Phaseolus vulgaris.

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Varieties of soybeans are used for many purposes.

Bulb and stem vegetables

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Garlic bulbs and individual cloves, one peeled.

Root and tuberous vegetables

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Carrots come in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors.

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The potato is one of the world's staple foods.

Sea vegetables

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Caulerpa is a genus of edible seaweed.

See also

• Herbs
• Vegetable juice
• List of culinary fruits
• List of leaf vegetables
• List of vegetable dishes
• List of foods
• Seed

External links

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