There are variety of plants that have a culinary role as vegetables in Sri Lanka. Vegetables can be used in several senses, including culinary and botanical.

Vegetables include botanical fruits such as pumpkins, and does not include herbs, spices, cereals and most culinary fruits and culinary nuts.

Sri Lankan Vegetables such as tomatoes, which are a botanical berry, but also a culinary vegetable and even tomato sauce as found on pizza, which is considered a vegetable. We have variety of vegetable and names of them can be found somewhere else in this website.

Ambarella                                  Ash Banana

Banana Flower                            Beet Root

Bellpepper                                 Bitter Gourd White

Bitter Gourd Green                      Bottle Gourd

Bredfruits                                   Brinjol Long

Jak Seed                                   KnolKhol

Kochchi                                      KohilaAla

Ladies Finger                             Leeks

Lime                                         Okra

Polos [young jak fruit]                Radish [long]

Butter Beans                              Butter Pumpking

Capsicum [yellow]                      Chow Chow

Cucumber                                  Curry Lemon

Dambala                                   Drum Stick

Flowering Chives                        Green Beans

Green Chilly                              JakFriut

Jak Fruit tray packeted               Red Onion [small,shallots] Ridge Gourd[thurei]Snakegourd

Spring Onion                             String Beans full violet

String Beans tropical green          String Beans violet   mixed

Thalanabatu [green egg plant]    Tamarind

Thibbatu                                    Velarika