A variety of lettuce, very small and sweetly flavoured, with tightly furled, crinkly leaves, but soft, more like a butterhead lettuce.

Ivy gourd. A small crunchy gourd reminiscent of a gherkin, green ripening to red, popular in the cuisines of India, Thailand, Indonesia and other South East Asian countries. The shoots and leaves can also be eaten.

A littleneck is a size of hard shell clam common on the Atlantic coast.