Question: Identify the plant whose leaves and stems both are used as vegetables.
Options:
Garlic and onion
Radish and carrot
Fenugreek and spinach
Mustard and potato
• '📌Concept:
-The stem is the plant axis that bears shoots, leaves, buds, and the basal end-roots.
-In some plants, the stem is modified to perform other functions such as storage of food, support, vegetative propagation, and protection.
-These are simply known as modified stems and can be categorized into various classes.
– A vegetable is any edible part of a herbaceous plant, such as the roots, leaves, stems, and bulbs.
🔑Key Points:
• Garlic:
-Garlic is a modified, underground stem, which is known as a bulb.
-Garlic is much similar to onions.
-The garlic plant itself has a bulb, a tall stem, and long leaves.
-Although the leaves and flowers of the plant are also edible.
-The bulb comprised of 10-20 cloves is most frequently eaten.
• Onion:
-The onion is a stem.
-It's a tunicate bulb with a clump of fleshy leaves on top.
-An onion is a type of underground stem structure that has been modified.
-The bulged leaf structure at the base of the onion plant stores its processed food.
Thus, the onion and garlic plant has leaves and stems, both are used as vegetables.Â
🔴Additional Information:
Vegetables: Eatable part.
-Carrot: Roots
-Radish: Roots
-Fenugreek: Leaves
-Spinach: Leaves
-Mustard: Seeds and leaves
-Potato: Stem