How do our usual fruits, vegetables and nuts grow (23 photos)

Have you ever looked at a can of red beans and thought: "Where did she even come from?" Here's a little excursion into how some plants familiar and known to us grow - perhaps, and you will learn something new about them.





Olives grow like this. They are collected by shaking off the tree








Cashew nuts grow from such fruits (which, by the way, have a poisonous shell)



The green stalks of broccoli we eat are the flowers of the cabbage itself.



Peanuts grow underground



This is how beans grow



Celery



Dates grow on palm trees



Artichokes are flowers. We eat such flowers, only in unopened form. They are harvested when the scales are just begin to unfold



In a botanical sense, an eggplant is a berry.



Kiwi grows on vines like grapes



Here are the pineapple fields



This flower is a blooming caper



Asparagus is cut like this



Papaya grows on a palm tree



Cinnamon is actually the dried bark of the Cinnamomum verum tree.



Avocado is a fruit. It grows on trees in large numbers



Almonds are the edible kernels of the seeds of the plant of the same name. They grow in thick shells



Chickpeas (aka chickpeas) grow in a green shell, low above the ground



Ginger is the root of this plant



This is what quinoa looks like. The fruits are collected in long, curly clusters along the stems. They are harvested and eaten.



How Brussels Sprouts Grow