Crossword puzzle clue "veggie staple"

a tropical plant of the mallow family, with edible pods, aka gumbo

to apply an onion, an edible bulb, to

something that bears a resemblance to something else, also ANALOG

a thistle-like perennial plant with large fleshy scaly head and bracts and edible receptacle

any plant of the Asparagus genus, one species having young shoots eaten as a delicacy