Percentages are roughly approximated using US recommendations for adults. Source: USDA Nutrient Database. The leek is a vegetable, a cultivar of Allium ampeloprasum, the broadleaf wild leek. The edible part of the plant is a bundle of leaf sheaths that is sometimes erroneously called a stem or stalk. Historically, many scientific names were used for leeks, but they are now all treated as cultivars of A. ampeloprasum.
The ovaries are the female gonads, or sex cell-producing organs, which produce eggs, or ova. (In men, the testicles are the gonads and they produce sperm .) Generally, the female body will have two ovaries, though the female body can survive with one or no ovaries.
Ovary. Two cream colored organs that were dorsal to the liver and are on each side of the mid-dorsal line. Depending on the maturity of your specimen, it may or may not show eggs within each ovary. The eggs move into the body cavity and then into the oviducts when they are ready to be fertilized.