Flowers and Flower Buds
- Artichoke (Cynara cardunculus, C. scolymus)
- Broccoli (Brassica oleracea)
- Caper (Capparis spinosa)
- Cauliflower (Brassica oleracea)
- Courgette flowers (Cucurbita spp.)
- Squash blossoms (Cucurbita spp.)
Read more about this topic: List Of Culinary Vegetables
Famous quotes containing the words flowers and, flowers, flower and/or buds:
“May! Be thou never graced with birds that sing,
Nor Flora’s pride!
In thee all flowers and roses spring,
Mine only died.”
—William Browne (1591–1643)
“My love is fair, my love is gay,
As fresh as bin the flowers in May
And of my love my roundelay,
My merry, merry, merry roundelay,
Concludes with Cupid’s curse,—
‘They that do change old love for new
Pray gods they change for worse!’”
—George Peele (1559–1596)
“Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)