Culinary Vegetable Classifications

Fungi

Button, flats, oyster

Leaves

Cabbage, lettuce, spinach

Roots

Carrot, radish, turnip

Flowers

Cauliflower, broccoli, artichoke

Bulbs

Fennel, shallot, leek

8 classifications of vegetables

Flowers, roots, leaves, pods/seeds, fungi, stems/shoots, fruits, bulbs

How are vegetables categorized

According to which part of the plant is eaten

Stem/shoots

Asparagus, celery, bamboo shoots

Pods/seeds

Peas, French beans, broad beans

*Tubers

Potato, kumara, yam

Fruits

Tomato, bell pepper, squash

Which vegetables grow underground

Tubers, roots, bulbs