Ladies' finger is a green vegetable with a tip at the end and a lighter green head, which is inedible and to be thrown away. It tastes mild and slightly grassy. A popular sweet-tasting root vegetable, Carrots are narrow and cone-shaped. They have thick, fleshy, deeply coloured root, which grows underground, and feathery green leaves that emerge above the ground. Leaving a moderately pungent taste on the tongue, green capsicums, also known as green peppers, are bell-shaped, medium-sized fruit pods.