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Contrary to the green colour, the Green Zebra tastes, like many other types of tomatoes, pleasantly sweet.
The entire plant of the ‘Elberta Girl’ tomato cultivar is covered with a fine, silvery fluff. The leaves are somewhat curly, the fruits are flamed. They are not very sweet, the flesh is of a rather mealy-soft consistency.
The bulbils are only about 5 mm in size and the onion is edible (stems and leaves are too tough) and taste like chives, often the taste is described similar to garlic and can replace it.
Blauwschokker peas are mainly used as dry peas, less often fresh, although they taste sweet as long as they are harvested young and tender and are eaten immediately.
Pineapple tomatoes are one of the largest and heaviest tomato varieties. Individual fruits can weigh over 1 kg.
The ripe seeds of the okra or okro can be roasted and nibbled or used as a coffee substitute.
Few-flowered leek: Allium paradoxum The leek with the bell-shaped flowers Few-flowered leek can grow in a dense, lawn-like stand. It is edible like spring onions, although the "tuber" remains somewhat smaller and the whole plant has a more delicate growth.
The fruit ripens throughout the summer and into the autumn. It has a firm flesh and is mainly processed into tomato paste and canned food.
Beef tomatoes are mainly used for cooking, they can be filled and baked or used in stews and sauces. Tomatoes are even suitable for jams – alone or mixed with other fruits.
The almost black seeds as well as the blood-red leaves are edible and dye red.
Chervil tastes like aniseed or tarragon. It is used to season soups, salads, sauces and herb butter and is one of the seven herbs in Frankfurt’s green sauce.
Indigo rose tomato belongs to the rather small-fruited varieties and can be eaten directly from the shrub.
A typical attribute of the bright golden yellow tomato variety ‘Indian Moon’ is the fine blush of the very ripe fruits up to red “cheeks”.
Green santolina is at home in Mediterranean cuisine. It can be used fresh in salads or marinades for seasoning and develops a slightly resinous aroma.
The plant is completely protected by sharp prickles, but this should not stop anyone from tasting the sweet berries that look like 2 cm large tomatoes.
The dried grains can be popped or ground into flour, but flour and popcorn are then no longer so colourful.
The deep red colour of the Red Velvet Okras gets lost during cooking, the fruits turn as green as ordinary okra pods when heated.
The purple calabash tastes sweet and very aromatic, as one would otherwise expect from the much smaller cocktail tomatoes.
Chives are finely chopped or cut with scissors, and are used in herb butter, sauces and various other herbal preparations.
Ground elder or goutweed is a widespread herb plant that can be found almost all year round and can be used as a wild vegetable not only in times of need.
The up to 4 cm large galls on the cobs are edible young (before the black spores form) and are considered a delicacy in Mexico.
Kaiser Alexander cucumbers at maturity have a dark brown skin with netting. At this stage, the fruit should be peeled before eating.
The Green Nightshade or Poro Poro is called ” man-eater tomato” in German.