nearly all of the various part of plants are eaten , but not every part of every plant life is edible . Some industrial plant are venomous and therefore inedible , some are not poisonous but distastefully inedible , others have more than one edible part , while still others have both eatable and poisonous office .
Step 1
Featured raw in salads and on sandwiches all over the populace , what we call lettuce is in reality the leaves of the plant , as is cabbage . Other plant whose folio we eat let in spinach , kale , collards , turnip and beets . Herbs used for seasoning and for medication are by definition the leaves of fragrant , flavorful plants .
Seeds
grain , make up the volume of the world ’s diet , are the seeds of flora in the grass phratry , such as wheat , corn , rice , barleycorn and Secale cereale . nut such as almond and walnut tree are the seeds of giant , long - go tree . Zea mays , bean and peas are all veg whose seeds are the part we eat .
Roots
arise and stored overwinter in cool , damp " root " cellar , vegetables with edible roots such as potatoes , onion plant , carrot , parsnips , beetroot and rutabagas easy provided fresh food during the winter before the day of refrigeration . In mod meter , they continue to be popular , as well as delectable .
Step 2
Stems
The most popular vegetables grow for their root word admit asparagus , Apium graveolens dulce and rhubarb . Also edible , but less well - known , are the newly grown tips of bean vine , pea vines , cucumber vines and sweet Irish potato vines , agree to University of Illinois Extension . Although considered an eatable " bulb , " the bulb - similar turnip cabbage is actually the lower , swollen base of the flora .
Fruit
tomato plant , mad apple , cucumbers , squash and melons are all technically fruit , as the succulent , eatable part circumvent the source , which may or may not be eaten , depending on the diverseness . Note that these vegetables all want hot conditions to bring on a harvest , and their seeds , which get the next coevals , ask a substantial protective covering to survive the utmost temperature of their aboriginal climate .
Flowers
Although many flowers grow for decoration are also edible , the flowers we corrode most are unripened , unopened buds on plants we call vegetables . Brassica oleracea italica , Brassica oleracea botrytis and artichoke are all unopened flower buds that become much inedible if left to maturate . Capers , a democratic edible and flavorsome garnish , are the unopened bud of a Mediterranean bush .
Pods
Although they contain their seeds in a manner similar to vegetables classified as fruits , pepper are technically considered a " pod , " concord to Texas A&M University Extension . Other pod vegetables , which all arrest edible come , are okra , dark-green attic , snap pea and C. P. Snow pea plant .
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