We’re one of the most popular fruits in the world! We grow on a lovely tree with spreading branches covered with pretty white blossoms from which apples grow once the flowers have been pollinated by insects.
We apricots belong to a group called stone fruits because we have a tough, inedible seed in our centre. We grow on splendid trees that can reach 7 metres in height, they look like opened umbrellas when fully mature.
Did you know we come in green and red colours too? We can be as short as 15cm or as long as 25cm
Did you know that some grape vine root stocks have been found in China that date back to before the great ice age? We grow in bunches, which can be like a pyramid, round or long and thin.
We were given the name kiwifruit by New Zealand growers and this is the name we're known by in Australia. We're cylindrical and egg-shaped, about 8cm long, with reddish-brown skin which is covered in short hairs.
We may be small but we pack a punch in the flavour and nutrition stakes. You see we have the ability to bring out the flavour of other foods, as well as tasting great ourselves.
We're like small oranges which are flattened at the top and bottom. Our skin is a deep orange colour, soft, glossy, often smooth and it peels away easily from our flesh.
We're related to European pears, apples and quinces. We're more or less round in shape, slightly smaller than a tennis ball, with greenish-yellow skin which can be speckled with brown flecks.
We're available most of the year and our skin is slightly rough, yellowish when ripe, and encloses a crisp, juicy, white flesh.
We're actually very tasty and so nutritious no one can afford to exclude us from their diet. We grow on rounded bushes (bush beans) which support themselves or on climbing plants.
We come in many different types and have many different names depending on where we come from. We have white or green, thick, crunchy stems with light to dark green wide leaves. All parts of us are eaten.
I belong to the Brassica family and am closely related to the cabbage. My fellow broccoli heads and I can range in colour from dark green to purplish green.
If we're cooked well, then we're really great and so good for you. We're part of the brassica (cabbage) family and we grow on a tall stemmed plant that reaches about 1 metre in height and has cabbage-like leaves.
We capsicums are closely related to hot chillies, but we're sweeter tasting and not at all hot to eat. Most of us are glossy, smooth-skinned, and blocky.
I'm a cousin of the cabbage family. We have roundish heads, which are creamy-white to pale cream in colour and look like a fluffy white cloud.
We eggplants grow on a bush that produces variously shaped fruit over a long period of time. Our most common type is the glossy, smooth skinned, tear drop-shaped eggplant which has dark purplish satin-like skin.
I'm the national emblem of Wales. Like other onions, we're part of the lily family, and we have a sweet, mild onion taste. We're a round, cylindrical vegetable with a slightly thickened, white base.
We're white cultivated mushrooms and our edible part is our fruiting body which produces spores. We're the most commonly sold mushroom and consist of an umbrella-like head.
We're a close relative of tomatoes, eggplants, and capsicums. Our skin colour varies from creamy-to-white, yellow, red to even purple.
We're normally hard-shelled and come in many different shapes and sizes. Our flesh is usually yellowish-orange, firm, moist and at our centre is a mass of flat seeds.
We consist of small, medium to bright green, thick, soft, oval to arrow-shaped leaves and green stems, both of which are eaten. Our leaves form rose-like clusters or rosettes from which our flowering shoot emerges.
We're a root vegetable related to radishes and mustards. We have a cylindrical, carrot or top-shape, with a flat top and a root that tapers to a point. We're available all year round with our peak being from May to October.
