Do you know of any vegetable that grows on a tree?

Answer 1

Racking my brains I honestly cant think of any. So, I'm going to answer - no.

I am presuming you are using the scientific distinction between vegetables and fruits, rather than the culinary one. As anything that contains a seed is scientifically a fruit all of the items mentioned above - beans, olives, nuts, avocado's etc are technically fruits regardless of how they are treated when preparing meals. So, if you can think of anything growing off a tree that doesn't contain a seed then you have found a tree vegetable. You can't count cultivated fruits/vegetables however. For instance, a banana grows on a 'tree' and is seedless and so are some grapes, but this is because the seeds have been cultivated out of them; so they still count as fruits.

You'll see I have put the word 'tree' in inverted commas. This is because not only is defining a vegetable or fruit a can of worms, so is defining a tree!! :-) We all refer to banana trees but in fact the plant bearing a banana is not technically a tree at all - it's actually an herbaceous plant. But that is a whole new quagmire.

Further comment after seeing Cameron and Trinity's answers:

I had actually thought of the Moringa, but my understanding is that it is the tree itself that is viewed as the vegetable not what grows on it (which is what you asked); that is called a fruit because it has seeds. I am willing to be corrected on this.

Technically Cameron is right, bananas do have seeds. However, I was referring to cultivated bananas, i.e. the ones you buy in the supermarket and eat. You will find that those bananas are what is called 'parthenocarpic' which means that the fruit is sterile.

Edible bananas are mutants with three sets of chromosomes instead of the two found in wild bananas, causing the edibles to be 'seedless' (which I define to include having a mutated and un-usable seed).

Try planting the 'seed' you find in a shop bought banana (as opposed to a wild banana) - you will never produce another banana from it. Bananas must be propagated from large rootstocks or rhizomes that are carefully transplanted in a suitable climate.

Answer 2

Olives grow on trees and are considered a fruit and/or a vegetable

Answer 3

Moringa Oleifera.
It is nutritious vegetable tree grows up to 10m height.

Answer 4

Nuts grow on trees.
Avocados grow on trees.

Answer 5

A veggie is a plant or part of a flower used as food

Answer 6

Both are good for you, each fruit/vegetable has different vitamins. And so as more variety, as better. Vegetables have generally less sugar than fruits.

Answer 7

Pumpkins

Answer 8

johno... a banana has seeds! how do you think it grows new trees? magic???? the seeds are small and black if you slice the banana and leave it out for a bit you will eventually see the small black seeds.

Answer 9

does an avacado count?
what about a palm heart

Answer 10

I don't think so