Talong  Eggplant,  Berenjena, Solanum Melongena L.(Family Solanaceae). It comes in white or purple colors of different sizes It is a low-growing bushy annual. The fruit is a smooth, ovoid or elongated, white or purple berry. It is thought to have been domesticated in India where wild plants now grow. The Arabs took the fruit from India to Spain and the Persians from India to Africa. The specific name 'melongena' is Arabic. Later, the brinjal was taken from Spain to America under the name berengenas.

Eggplants

Kamuting Kahoy Cassava, Yuca,  (Tapioca is made of Cassava), 
Manihot Esculenta Crantz. (Family Euphorbiaceae) A shrubby perennial 1-5 m tall, propagated easily by stem cuttings. Branching usually occurs near the apex of the main stem. Leaf scars are conspicuous. Leaves are alternate, palmately-lobed on long petioles. Latex tubes occur in all parts of the plant exuding a sticky, milky fluid on injury. The latex in younger plant parts is a clear, watery juice. The root tubers contain a glycoside that yields highly poisonous hydrocyanic acid and this is responsible for their bitter taste. The quantity and distribution of this acid divides the cassava into two main racial groups - bitter and sweet. The latter is relatively free from poisonous properties. However, the bitter type is a staple food in several countries, the sweet type is rarely if ever a staple food. It was first domesticated in Central or South America, having been cultivated there for several thousand years by the American Indians. The cassava was taken to West Africa by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century and then spread to the rest of the world.

 

Kamuting Kahoy

Sibuyas Bombay, Onion. Cebolla,  . Allium Cepa L. (Family Liliaceae)  A herbaceous biennial composed largely of thickened leaf bases and a very short condensed stem at the base. The outermost leaf bases of the bulb are dry and pigmented and form a covering for the fleshy inner ones which are the food reserves. There is a great variation between cultivars in size, color, pungency and quality of mature bulbs. The color may be orange-yellow, reddish or purplish depending on the variety. There is also a small-bulbed variety called shallots considered by many taxonomists as a separate species A. ascalonicum. Spring onion belongs to other species A. fistulosum L. The onion is one of the earliest of cultivated species. It was cultivated very early by the ancient Egyptians as a food plant as far back as 3000 BC.

Onion

Kayote.  Chayote,  Vegetable Pear. Sechium Edule Sw. (Family Cucurbitaceae) A herbaceous vine with palmy-lobed leaves. Fruits are 8-12 cm long and 5-9 cm wide, pear-shaped, green or pale green, wrinkled and shallowly furrowed, sometimes with soft spines on the broader end. Each fruit contains a large seed. It is native to Mexico and Central America, cultivated in hilly areas in Malaysia and many other parts of the world. The fruit, after the large seed has been removed, is used as a vegetable. The seed is also edible. Its leaves, young shoot, and root tubers, besides the fruits, are consumed as vegetables among the natives in Central America.

Chayote Vine

Mais,  Corn, choclo,  Maize, . Zea Mays L. (Family Gramineae) An annual crop which can reach 2-4 m tall. It has male flowers on terminal panicles and female flowers, on side spikes. After fertilisation, the female spikes form "ears" in which the grains (fruits) are arranged in more or less regular rows. The ears are covered by leafy husks with silks exposed on the top. These silks are the remains of the styles of the female flowers. It is a native of tropical America. It is widely cultivated in many parts of the world.

Sweet Corn

Pepino Cucumber; Cucumis Sativus L. (Family Cucurbitaceae) An annual with a rough-stemmed, trailing vine. Fruits range from small, stubby types only a few centimetres long to giants of half a metre in length, with rough or smooth skin and green or white flesh. The local cucumber is a thick, short fruit, green with yellow streaks (20-25 cm long). Another variety very common here is described by Milsum and Grist: "Malays grow a variety with large reddish-brown fruits.....It is known as timun ladang and is popular with Asiatics." The cucumber is an important food plant unknown in the wild, although similar species occur in Northern India, south of the Himalayas - the presumed home of the cucumber. 

Kanaka;  Malanga (Cocoyam) Xanthosoma Sagittifolium(L.) Schott (Araceae) Malanga has a woodsy taste with a hint of black walnut. A herb with big, green, sagittate leaves with a submarginal vein. The juice from a fresh cut is thick and milky. It sprouts easily from a long rhizome that gives off lateral buds which develop into tubers. It is of tropical American origin and was planted in the tropics by the Portuguese and Spainiards. Similar to a yam in appearance and a potato in flavor. Used extensively in Cuba and Puerto Rico, it is most often peeled, boiled and eaten. 

Fern