Vegetables That Start With R

10 vegetables Food and drink Checked 9 Oct 2026

Here are 10 vegetables that start with R, each with a one-line description so you can tell what it is. The best-known ones come first, then the full list in A to Z order.

Red is a running theme on the R page. Red pepper, red onion and red cabbage all appear, joined by radicchio with its deep red leaves.

Radish and rhubarb are the familiar picks. Rhubarb has sour pink stalks that are usually cooked with sugar in pies and crumbles. Romanesco is the eye catcher, a green relative of cauliflower with pointed spiral florets that look like a pattern from a maths book. Romaine, runner bean and rutabaga complete the ten.

Vegetables starting with R: 10
Best known: rhubarb, radish
Longest name: runner bean

Best-known vegetables that start with R

The ones most people will recognise, good for school lists, quizzes and games.

rhubarb
radish
romanesco

All vegetables that start with R

#	Name	What it is
1	radicchio	prized variety of chicory having globose heads of red leaves
2	radish	pungent fleshy edible root
3	red cabbage	compact head of purplish-red leaves
4	red onion	flat mild onion having purplish tunics; used as garnish on hamburgers and salads
5	red pepper	very hot red peppers; usually long and thin; some very small
6	rhubarb	long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened
7	romaine	lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head
8	romanesco	green cauliflower relative with spiral pointed florets
9	runner bean	long bean pods usually sliced into half-inch lengths; a favorite in Britain
10	rutabaga	the large yellow root of a rutabaga plant used as food

Questions people ask

How many vegetables start with R?

This list has 10 vegetables starting with R, from well-known ones like rhubarb, radish, romanesco to rarer kinds.

What vegetables start with R?

Well-known examples are rhubarb, radish, romanesco.

Source: Princeton WordNet, a public dictionary database, reviewed by our editors to keep only clear, real members of the list. Meanings are short dictionary glosses.

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