Apples

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.

Apricot

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.

Avocado

To begin with, I’m a fruit but I’m eaten like a vegetable. We originated in Mexico and Central America but we’re grown all around the globe.

Banana

Did you know we come in green and red colours too? We can be as short as 15cm or as long as 25cm

Blackberries

Blueberries

Firstly, we're cultivated berries. We're roundish, about the size of a marble, with smooth skin covered in a fine, white powder or ‘bloom'

Cherries

Cumquat

Custard apples

Dates

Figs

Finger limes

Grape

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.

Grapefruit

We're juicy citrus fruit with a slightly sour, but pleasant, taste. We're almost round, often with a flat bottom and a slightly tapering neck. We're normally, thin-skinned and yellow, but some of us do come in red and red-blushed colours.

Guava

Honeydew

We have smooth, white or yellow skin with pale green to green flesh. We're about 15-20cm in diameter, and round to oval in shape. Our flesh, contained by the thin, firm skin or rind, is moist, sweet and succulent with seeds in the centre.

Kiwifruit

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.

Lemon

Our skin or rind is more or less rough, thick and dotted with oil glands and our flesh is very juicy and sour.

Lime

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.

Loquats

Lychees

We have been cultivated as long ago as 1700 BC in China. We're usually round or slightly egg-shaped, the size of a walnut shell, pink to reddish-brown in colour, with a textured skin.

Mandarin

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.

Mangoes

We're a smooth-skinned fruit with a beautiful, sensuous feel and sweet aroma. Our shape and size can vary considerably, as well as our flavour and colour.

Mangosteens

Mulberries

Nashi

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.

Nectarines

We're stone fruit and are related to peaches, cherries, plums and loquats. We grow on trees and are a bit like peaches without the fuzz. Our smooth skin is red in colour on a yellow to pale yellow background whilst our flesh can vary from almost white, yellow to almost red.

Orange

Oranges are available all year round. We're the best-known citrus fruit and are related to mandarins, lemons, grapefruit, limes and citrons.

Papaya

Passionfruit

Peach

We have soft, fuzzy skin which is red on a yellow to pale yellow background. Our flesh can vary from almost white, yellow to almost red.

Pear

We're available most of the year and our skin is slightly rough, yellowish when ripe, and encloses a crisp, juicy, white flesh.

Persimmons

Pineapple

I'm a pineapple from sunny Queensland. Although we look like a rough, spiky, pine cone we're really a group of smaller fruits that have fused together around a central core, that contain juicy, slightly fibrous segments

Plums

We're stone fruits, with a range of pink to purple skin colours. Our flesh is also multi-coloured from yellow, creamy-white to blood red.

Pomegranates

Pomelo

Quinces

Rambutans

Raspberries

We consist of a collection of tiny fruits, each with its own seed covered in red skin and flesh, which form a helmet-shaped cluster around a small stem. When harvested the cluster comes away from the stem leaving a hollow in the centre.

Red & White Currants

Rockmelon

We’re usually round or slightly elongated with firm, netted or scaly, greyish-green, cream or buff rind. Our flesh surrounds seeds in the centre.

Strawberries

Now there are other berries in this world but admit it, we’re the best – sweet, succulent, easy to eat – no other berry is as good as us. It’s true that we’re similar to raspberries and blackberries.

Tamarillo

Tangelos

Watermelon

We’re synonymous with long, hot summers and lazy days at the beach. We belong to the melon family and can be round, soccer ball-size or an elongated, egg shape with smooth, hard, thick, green or yellow skin or rind.

Artichoke

I'm a vegetable that grows underground and I have prickly leaves thatare grey-green to bronze-green in colour, often with a purplish tinge.

Asparagus

My family were given the title ‘king of vegetables' by the ancient Egyptians. Throughout the ages we've become the symbol of good taste in food.

Beans

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.

Bok Choy

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.

Broccoli

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.

Broccolini

Brussels Sprouts

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.

Cabbage

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.

Capsicum

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.

Carrot

We're one of the most widely eaten foods on the Planet and everyone likes us, especially Bugs Bunny. We're grown for our taproots which form below the surface.

Cauliflower

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.

Celeriac

Celery

Sometimes called bunch celery we consist of a group of pale green, succulent stems with thick, white bases which are joined at the bottom of the stalks to a crown at ground level. Our stems are ‘U' shaped with slight furrows

Chestnuts

Chillies

Chokos

Cucumber

We're related to the melons, pumpkins and squash but we have our individual style. We're usually torpedo-shaped with green to dark green or white skin surrounding a whitish edible pulp containing seeds.

Eggplant

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.

Eschallots

Fennel

I am a roundish, bulbous vegetable, about 8-12cm in diameter, with a mild licorice smell and taste. My large swollen base consists of several overlapping broad stems, forming a white to very pale green-white, firm, crisp bulb.

Garlic

We don't just make food taste great, we're really good for you too. It's said that we have the powers to keep you strong and healthy.

Ginger

Jerusalem artichokes

Kale

Kohlrabi

Leek

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.

Lettuce

We've been enjoyed for thousands of years. One of the world's most popular salad vegetables, we come in many shapes, sizes and colours. There are four main types in Australia, all of which are widely grown.

Mushroom

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.

Okra

Olive

We have a long and distinguished history. If left to mature on the tree we turn dark purple to black. Inside we have a large, egg-shaped seed with pointed sharp ends. Our meaty flesh is inedible until properly pickled.

Onions

We're a bulb formed from the bases of our leaves. The most common being round to oval-shaped and slightly smaller than a tennis ball.

Parsnip

We are related to carrot, celery and parsley, so we come from a distinguished family. We have a taproot similar to a carrot but with creamy-white skin and a green, leafy top.

Peas

Peas to meet you! We grow on a climbing plant that produces pods containing seeds or peas. We're sold in the pod and either eaten whole or we're removed from the inedible pod before eating.

Potato

We're a close relative of tomatoes, eggplants, and capsicums. Our skin colour varies from creamy-to-white, yellow, red to even purple.

Pumpkin

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.

Radicchio

Radish

Silverbeet

Spinach

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.

Squash

We're a vegetable and part of a large family related to pumpkins, cucumbers and melons. We come in all sizes, shapes and colours, which makes us a very interesting family of vegetables.

Sweet Potato

We're generally called sweet potatoes because of our delicious, sweet flavour and are not related to the potato at all. Our skin is smooth and can be white, red, golden or purple

Sweetcorn

Corn, also called maize, is one of the world's major cereal crops and we're used as flour to make bread, to produce breakfast cereal, to make popcorn and, of course, sweet corn is grown and sold as a vegetable.

Swiss chard

Tomato

Yes, we're a fruit all right but everyone thinks we're a vegetable because we're used in savoury dishes. We have glossy, thin, smooth skin, with a juicy flesh containing numerous soft, edible seeds.

Turnip & Swede

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.

Watercress

Witlof

Zucchini

We’re soft, thin-skinned and sausage-shaped with rounded ends. Our skin colours range from almost black, dark green, pale green, pale green with grey, and yellow.

Zucchini flowers