...', is a cultivar of [[lettuce]] grown primarily for its thick [[plant stem|stem]], used as a [[vegetable]]. It is especially popular in China, where it is
The stem is usually harvested at a length of around 15-20 [[centimetre|cm]] and a di
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...ionship between botanical and culinary fruit and vegetables. Many culinary vegetables are botanical fruit.
Image:FruitArrangement.jpg|An arrangement of fruits commonly thought of as vegetables, including [[tomato]]es and various [[Squash (fruit)|squash]].
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* Modified [[plant stem|stem]]s:
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...pia'' (sometimes written ''[[lumpia]]'': fried wrapped bamboo shoots with vegetables). Note that the shoots of some species contain [[cyanide]] that need to be
[[Category:Stem vegetables]]
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...are underground plant parts used as [[vegetable]]s. They are called root vegetables for lack of a better generic term, but include both true [[root]]s such as
Regardless of anatomical type, root vegetables are generally [[storage organ]]s, enlarged to store energy in the form of [
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The plant grows to around 60cm in height. As in other goatsbeards, its stem is largely unbranched, and the leaves are somewhat grasslike. In Britain i
[[Category:Root vegetables]]
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A '''corm''' is a short, vertical, swollen underground stem of a [[plant]] (usually one of the [[monocotyledon|monocots]]) that serves
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[[Category:Stem vegetables]]
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'''Nopales''' are a [[vegetable]] made from the young [[plant stem|stem]] segments of [[prickly pear]], carefully peeled to remove the [[spine (bio
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...rabic name). Banana Family. Fig. 12. Large, semi-ligneous herbs, the stout stem enveloped at base by the sheathing petioles, unbranched: leaves alternate e
...th of the stem, top of the floral spike, and also the shoots, are eaten as vegetables. The fibers from the petioles of Musa textilis are made into thread and fab
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...fruits|culinary fruits]] and [[Nut (fruit)|culinary nuts]]. Some culinary vegetables ([[seaweeds]] like [[nori]]) are not even members of the [[plantae|plant ki
...s such as sweet potato pie, sweet green tomato pie and sweet eggplant pie. Vegetables are also used in [[Vegetable juice|juices]].
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Zucchini is one of the easiest vegetables to cultivate in a [[temperate]] [[climate]]. As such, zucchini has a reputa
...ucchini plant in the leaf axils (where leaf [[petiole]] meets [[Plant stem|stem]]) on a long stalk and is slightly smaller than the female. Both flowers ar
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...duced on a cabbage root, if that were possible. The flesh of the thickened stem resembles that of a turnip, but when well grown it is more delicate, both i
To prepare kohlrabi for market, cut the stem just above the surface of the ground and tie three to five plants together
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...to swell but before the infection reaches its reproductive stage, when the stem will begin to turn [[black]] and eventually disintegrate.
* [http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1990/V1-387.html Asian Vegetables]
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...both words ''arugula'' and ''rocket'' ultimately come from the Latin word stem roc and ''eruca'' which means harsh, in reference to its bitter flavour esp
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...), and the hourglass-shaped leaves (actually, the leaf and the leaf-shaped stem or phyllode) are widely used in Cambodian, Thai, and Lao Cuisine.
...m yum]], and to Indonesian food such as [[sayur assam]] - literally ''sour vegetables''), the juice and rinds of the small, dark green gnarled fruit (known as je
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It has a smooth, slender, curving stem, up to 1 [[metre|m]] high, much-divided [[leaf|leaves]], and small, wh
[[category:Root vegetables]]
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...d 5-40 together above a pair of leaves that are united together around the stem to appear as one circular leaf. Mature plants have numerous erect to spread
[[Category:Leaf vegetables]]
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...leaves 30-60 cm (rarely 75 cm) long and 5-10 cm wide at the top of a woody stem. It produces 40-60 cm long [[panicle]]s of small scented yellowish to red [
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