What is this vegetable? Came in as oversupply from a market, labelled as an “exotic vegetable” on the box

by whospeach

23 Comments

  1. ScienceMomCO

    I don’t know, but to me it just looks like a Stapelia, which is a succulent decorative plant

  2. whospeach

    For extra context, I volunteer at a foodbank in the UK. It’s possible it’s inedible but would be really odd. Not really able to distribute to people if we have no idea if it’s edible.

  3. _Caralluma_ species, can’t be certain it’s one of the varieties considered edible though.

  4. Winged bean. ***Psophocarpus tetragonolobus***

  5. Brighter_Days_Ahead4

    I believe I read that some stapeliads are eaten as famine food in their native range. But that’s still really weird. 

  6. CheesePlease0808

    Looks like broken off branches from a huernia schneideriana to me — a house plant.

  7. 0rchidhunter

    It’s a stapeliad. Probably one of the Caralluma species.

  8. samplenajar

    Wow a lot of different guesses in this thread

  9. Trick-Bus-2548

    It’s Caralluma adscendens, it’s called chonga in Pashto and Chonga keema is a common dish there. Helps with diabetes and few other ailments.

  10. EveningZealousideal6

    Oh I know this one. It’s an Asian vegetable: it’s called Chunga in Urdu, but in English it’s a Caralluma adscendens

  11. Technicalchawal

    they are called chung in urdu. eaten also in middle east i believe.
    they are delicious when cooked correctly taste very bitter when not.
    cooked usually with minced beef.

  12. Nature_Girl_20

    It almost looks like an African Milk plant

  13. lostyourmarble

    Donate as a houseplant. Most people would not know how to prepare even if edible. Cute as a succulent houseplant

  14. Jimmyboro

    They’re freshly grown Churos, you have to dry them out and then fry them, dry them out again, coat them in sugar and cinnamon and bake them for 30 minutes.

    You can get them from the same place that sells the spaghetti tree from that BBC documentary.

    /s…. if not obvious 👍

  15. Midnite_Marky

    Those are catacumbers or cucupillars depending on gender

  16. dolphin_steak

    Is this the one with mottled star shaped flowers and fluffy seeds?

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