Stalks, Shoots and Mushrooms

Gathers the vegetables that are the stems, shoots or buds of a plant, along with the mushroom, which is the fruiting body of a fungus. It includes celery, fennel, asparagus, artichoke, rhubarb, bamboo shoot, fiddlehead fern and mushroom. Within the Vegetables and Vegetable Products subcategory it sits beside the groups Alliums, Roots, Tubers and Corms, Cabbages and Brassicas, Leafy Greens and Salad Vegetables, Fruiting Vegetables and Gourds, and each entry is placed in the one group whose description fits it best.