Italian parsley can be initially distinguished from its curly counterparts by its flat deeper green loosely-toothed leaves.

Resembling a top heavy, ivory colored carrot with a sweet, nutty flavor, parsnips are a traditional winter vegetable. Cold weather is responsible for the flavor as the cold turns the starches into sugars.

This fruit is truly a passionate favorite with chefs. Known as lilikoi in Hawaii, passion fruit is strong, tart and tropical. and cocktails.

Pattypan squash, otherwise known as scallop squash, is a small, round, saucer-shaped vegetable that grows during summer months.

Favored for its crisp, sweet pod than its tiny peas, the flat shape of the Sno Pea makes it easy to distinguish from other edible pea pods, like the Sugar Snap Pea.

Bright green and sweet, string-less sugar snap peas have a crisp, edible pod. Resembling miniature versions of common green pea pods, sugar snap peas are not only tender and entirely edible, but quite sweet and juicy as well.

Resembling a cross between an apple and a pear-firm, crunch and very juicy.

Shinko, meaning 'new success', is a medium size Asian pear with rounded golden-brown skin and yellow-white flesh.

Yali, meaning 'duck pear' is the most famous Chinese variety, actually pear shaped with green skin.

A perfect pear for eating out of hand or in salads.  Its tender skin is blushed with red covering small to large areas and turns pale green and yellow when ripe.

Perhaps the most useful and commonly available variety for cooking., a ripe Bosc will still be firm with dense, tender flesh that is honey-sweet, rich and aromatic and will give ever so slightly when gently pressed.

Pebbles is a unique bean of which Mohr-Fry Ranches are exclusive growers. The beans look like a mixture of beans with all their colors, but they are not. They are all from the same plant.

Anaheim peppers are long, somewhat round tapered peppers, usually green in color with mild heat.

Green to Orange, 2-3" long. Deep, rich flavor. Mild until you hit the ribs, then eye-popping hot. 11,000 heat units

The Hungarian Wax Pepper, as its name suggests, originated in Hungary. Also known as the Hot Wax Pepper, it is easily confused with the similar-looking banana pepper, but it is much hotter.

A suddenly popular pepper, native to the ancient Spanish town of Padron. Padron is a small, crinkled, green pepper with grooved furrows along their skin.

This cheese is made in small batches with rBST and antibiotic-free milk, is aged for one month and contains no artificial colors.

Twin Peaks Orchards is now supplying us with a particular variety of persimmon that is truly an extraordinary piece of fruit.

Pigeon Peas were cultivated in Egypt 4000 years ago. This very old bean was brought to the Southern parts of the United States and Caribbean by slaves from Africa.

Plantains are usually larger and thicker than the more common Cavendish banana variety, with distinct, tapered ends. The dense flesh is pink to pale yellow with a sticky texture.

A softball sized fruit with an interior like no other. The clusters of the edible juicy seeds are randomly encased in a creamy white membrane.

Not a true variety but rather a fully mature Crimini with caps that can reach 6 inches in diameter and an edible stem

Cinderella Pumpkins are a unique French heirloom whose correct name is "Rouge vif D'Etampes". It is a deep orange pumpkin that is quite flat, with thick walls, pronounced ribs that are sweet, moist and custard like.

They are smooth and pure white outside; all fine-grained orange flesh inside-great for carving, painting and decorating.

Its deep blue color, rich natural flavor, texture and sweetness makes this blueberry puree perfect for desserts, syrups, sauces, pastry recipes, beverages and cocktails.

This coconut puree has the meat and cream pureed until silky smooth and then homogenized so that they will not separate.

This ginger puree is made from young rhizomes that are naturally sweet, not fibrous or bitter.

Its mystique comes from its naturally vibrant fuchsia color of its pulp which has a delicate melon-fig taste.

This Roasted Red Pepper puree is made from field-ripened sweet red bell peppers - fire roasted, steamed to loosen their skins and then skinned and seeded by hand.

This powerful sweet-tart flavor is 100% free of the seeds and strings that characterize this pod fruit.

Purslane is a clover-like herb that bears small, paddle-shaped, dark green leaves on its red, smooth stems.