MULTILINGUAL
MULTISCRIPT PLANT NAME DATABASE
SAMPLING OF
VEGETABLES OF THE WORLD
BEETS
Selection of the most
beautiful leaves of a traditional Chilean leaf-beet called
'Rainbow
Chard'. Leaves on top
& bottom are of 'Russian Red' kale.
LETTUCES
Lettuces in the field, intercropped
with Italian eggplant 'Violetta di Firenze'
'Red
Sails' (left), 'Red Oak' (centre),
'Red Cos' (right)
'Red
Oak' (gardening grade). A
commercially produced grade is shown above.
'Red
Cos' (left), 'Red Oak',
'xxxx', 'Gold
Rush', 'xxxx' (right)
FLAGEOLET BEAN
'ELSA'
Displaying typical
flageolet pod and seed colour fading from fresh-seed stage to
dry-seed stage (right).
Foliage has no relation
whatsoever to this bean. A purely "artistic shot". Detailed
description.
EGGPLANTS & PEPPERS
Eggplants
'Long
Black' (top left),
'Black
Egg', 'Violetta di Firenze' (right)
French heirloom hot pepper
'Piment de
Bresse' (centre left),
sweet Hungarian 'Yellow
Banana', hot
'Red
Cherry', hot
'Perennial
Pepper'
'Perennial Pepper' immature green fruits and mature
edible red fruits
POTATOES
'Désirée', 'Purple Congo',
'Southern Gold', 'King Edward', 'Kipfler',
'Pink Fir Apple', 'Dandenong Blue', 'xxx'
'Toolangi Delight', 'Russet Burbank',
'Désirée', 'Kennebec', 'Red
Pontiac', 'Austrian Crescent'
BITTER
CUCUMBER
Long white fruited
bitter cucumber showing edible fruit inside & outside and
inedible / mature fruit with red pulp & brown seeds
PUMPKINS
'Golden Hubbard' (top), 'Baby Red Hubbard' (centre), 'Blue Kuri' and 'Butternut' (bottom)
Japanese gourmet
pumpkins, Chestnut type :
'Red Hokkaido' aka 'Uchiki Kuri' aka 'Baby Red Hubbard',
'Blue Kuri' (top centre), 'Delica Ebizu' F1 (right)
OCA -
Oxalis tuberosa Molina
Edible tubers and succulent foliage
- In order to "find decent tubers" in the ground, one needs to dig in
mid to end of winter (Sth Eastern VIC -Australia). Nomenclature.
Thumbnails are linked to close up shots,
names are linked to nomenclature
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