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Squash flower and saluyot
There are vegetables that are classified under two or three categories, such as malunggay (leaf and fruit), squash or kalabasa (leaf or top, flower, fruit and even seed - butong kalabasa), kamote or sweet potato (top and root). The vegetable with practically all its parts useful is gabi: leaves, stalk, runners or stolon, and tuber.
How do we classify onion? Well, the bulb is actually enlarged leaves, metamorphosed leaves in botany. For practical purposes, the onion bulb is classified root vegetable. The Irish potato or patatas is a metamorphosed stem. Its "eyes" are actually nodes. But it is classified root vegetable. The rhizome of ginger or luya is metamorphosed stem, but it is also considered as root vegetable.
Now there are vegetables which are also eaten as fruit. Take the case of pineapple. It comes in various recipes. Santol and guava are used in cooking sinigang. So with kamias.Green mango is best served with bagoong alamng. Sinampalokan, anyone?
During emergency such as famine, people resort to what is called "hunger" food plants. A number of them are seasonal, they just sprout from the ground after the first heavy rain following a long dry summer. Examples are saluyot, kam-kamote, spinach, and gulasiman.
During drought people hunt for wild yam, tugui' and ube hidden under the parched earth. In the the movie, The Gods Must be Crazy, the natives of the Kalahari desert are experts in survival skill.
There are unlikely sources like ubod or heart of coconut, maguey and banana, which as a consequence, kill the plant. A bamboo shoot or labong is a potential pole many times more valuable. Harvesting sago is in effect killing the palm tree which may be from 10 to 50 years. Sago flour is gathered from the pith of its trunk.
This special case is one for the Book of Guinness - vegetable soup from stone, literally stone soup. Lumot or algae grow on stone or a piece of rock found in clear rivers or coral reefs. The stone is "roasted" and made into soup, say with tomato and onion, or the crusted stone or rock is simply cooked with bulanglang. One advantage of the latter is that the stone brings boiling time faster, indeed to the delight of the hungry stomach.
Here are scientific names of vegetables. Identify their common or dialect names, and classify each accordingly. Indicate their specific uses, their products and values. Also indicate the areas they are widely cultivated.
- Glicine max
- Brassica oleracea var capitata
- Ipomea aquatica
- Vigna sequipedales
- Brassica oleracea
- Dolichos lalab
- Musa sapientum
- Colocasia esculenta
- Solanum tuberosum
- Moringa oleracea
- Dolichos lablab
- Pseudocarpus tetragonolobus
- Momordica charantia
- Solanum melongena
- Lycopersicum esculentum
- Nostoc
- Enteromorpha intestinalis
- Caulerpa racemosa
- Volvariella esculenta
- Ipomea batatas
- Averrhoa balimbi
- Manihot utilissima
- Phaseolus lunatus
- Cucurbita maxima
- Dacus carota
- Lagenaria leucantha
- Pacchuyrizus erosus
- Manihot utilissima
- Sesbania grandiflora
- Gliricida sepium
- Zea mays
- Apium graveolens
- Ipomea aquatica
- Lactuca sativa
- Phaseolus aureus
- Capsicum annuum
- Allium tuberosum
- Allium sepa
- Brassica chinensis
- Oryza sativa
- Luffa acutangula
- Zingiber officinale
- Moringa oleifera
- Tamarindus indica
- Centella asiatica
- abelmoschus esculentus
- Pachyrizus erosus
- Amaranthus spinosus
- Talinum triangulare
- Bixa orellana
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