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List of leaf vegetables

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ3253240 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a list of vegetables which are grown or harvested primarily for the consumption of their leafy parts, either raw or cooked. Many vegetables with leaves that are consumed in small quantities as a spice such as oregano, for medicinal purposes such as lime, or used in infusions, such as tea, are not included in this list.

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Citations marked with Ecoport are from the Ecoport Web site, an ecology portal developed in collaboration with the FAO.

Those marked with GRIN are from the GRIN Taxonomy of Food Plants.

Sources marked with Duke are from James Duke's book Handbook of Energy Crops.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 104-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where List, leaf and vegetables can be independently traced.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3253240. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of leaf vegetables” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.