Plants we eat are fruits and vegetables.
You can make your own alphabet book of plants we eat. You may like to make one that is just vegetables or just fruits. Add your own ideas to your list.
Collect pictures or draw your own to decorate your pages.
Do some research to find out about any of the plants in the list that you don't know.
What do they look like? How do we use them? Which parts do we eat? Where do they grow best?
Note: when we first did this way back in 2004, we asked people to help us add to our lists. All of these people helped. So we thank them again.
Carmen Tran, Thuy Tran, Year 1G, 1P, 1M and 1W and Mrs Cartwright, Lois Ryan, Rhonda Chapman, Brian Davis from Nashville, TN in the USA. Joanne Lazarus and the 4th grade at Newmarket Elementary, NH., Denise Slick, Ash-leigh.
Can you think of others? Let us know.
Fruit |
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Vegetables |
almond, apple, apricot, avocado |
Aa |
asparagus,artichoke, alfalfa |
banana, blackberry, blueberry, blackcurrant, boysenberry |
Bb |
basil, beans, beetroot, broccoli, brussels sprouts, bamboo shoot, beansprouts |
choko, cherry, cumquats, clementine, custard apple, cantaloupe, |
Cc |
cabbage, carrot, celery, chilli, corn, cinnamon, currant, coriander , cauliflower, cucumber, chick pea, curry plant, coconut, , courgette, capsicum,cashew, chard, |
date , durian |
Dd |
dill, dandelion |
Ee |
eggplant, elder, endive |
|
fig |
Ff |
fennel, French bean |
grape, grapefruit, guava, gooseberry |
Gg |
garlic, ginger |
hazel nut, honeydew (melon), hickory nut |
Hh |
horseradish, |
Ii |
Indian corn (maize) iceberg lettuce, Ita palm |
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jackfruit, jam melon, juniper berry, jujube (a plum-like fruit) |
Jj |
jalapeno, Jerusalem artichoke, jackfruit |
kiwifruit, |
Kk |
kale, kohlrabi |
lemon, lime, lychee, |
Ll |
leek, lentil, lettuce |
mandarin, mango, mangosteen |
Mm |
mace,mint, mushroom, marrow, mustard seed |
nectarine, nuts, nashi pear |
Mn |
nutmeg, |
orange, |
Oo |
oats, olive, onion, oregano, okra |
peaches, passionfruit, peanut, pineapple, pomegranate, pear, papaya, persimmon, plum, pecan |
Pp |
parsley,pea,potato, parsnip, pepper, pumpkin |
quince, quandong |
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raspberry, rambutan, rockmelon, |
Rr |
radish, rice, rosemary, rhubarb, rocket, radicchio, rutabaga (a type of turnip) |
strawberries,sultanas, star fruit, sugar cane |
Ss |
sage, spinach, swede, silverbeet, seaweed |
tomato, tangerine, tamarind |
Tt |
taro, tarragon, tea, turnip |
ugli fruit |
Uu |
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vanilla, violet, voavanga (a Spanish tamarind) |
Vv |
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walnut, watermelon |
Ww |
watercress, wheat |
ximenia fruit, xigua |
Xx |
|
yellow watermelon |
Yy |
yam |
Zz |
zucchini |