About Vegetable Types

Different lists classify vegetables by their botanical origins, i.e. plant families, or their anatomy; however this is not the natural, instinctive way that gardeners, cooks or housewives thinks about them.

The instinctive way is to ask whereabouts on the plants the vegetables are derived, and this does not require scientific or agricultural training.

In this list different types of vegetables have been categorized according to their type, and taste.

Bulb vegetables

Flower vegetables

Fruit vegetables

Leaf vegetables

Mushroom vegetables

Podded vegetables

Root vegetables

Sea vegetables

Stem vegetables