Edible Leaf Plant Herbaceous Plant For Sale In Downey

Its foliage is narrow and glossy with a bright green appearance. * Erect stalks topped with one or several blue 1 1/2" flowers; parent of many cultivars with white, blue, or double flowers; popular and easy to grow.

* Malvus sylvestris is a spreading herb , who is an annual in North Africa , biennial in the Mediterranean and a perennial elsewhere . * 2 1/2" deep purple flowers on a plant that resembles a small hollyhock; likes full sun; biennial or perennial; native...

Matures in 45 days. * This Heirloom variety has been around over 100 years , has long deep green leaves high in iron, vitamins and antioxidants. It is great fresh in salads or steamed.

* Cut back to just below lowest flowers immediately after summer bloom to promote fall rebloom. * Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. * Bell-shaped flowers are pale lavender-blue and bloom for an unusually long...

Nutrition comes from the beets fiber, vitamins, minerals and unique plant derived anti-oxidants. * The usually deep-red roots of garden beet are eaten boiled either as a cooked vegetable, or cold as a salad after cooking and adding oil and vinegar.

The young plants can also be eaten as a slightly spicy tasting micro-green. * It preferes cool growing temperatures and will tolerate some shade. This variety was the All America Selection Winner in 1949.

* Fordhook is a well known and very popular variety of Swiss Chard. It is cold hardy as well as tolerant of heat. * The large stalks are topped by deep green leaves. Excellent for use in salads or steamed.

* Purple Top White Globe Turnip is an outstanding Heirloom variety. * The tops can also be eaten when young as greens or in soups. * The purple topped turnip root will reach 4-5 inches in diameter and matures in 40 to 60 days.

* Coltsfoot is a perennial herbaceous plant that spreads by seeds and rhizomes . The leaves, which resemble a colt's foot in cross section, do not appear usually until after the seeds are set.

* The seeds have been used in making cough syrups. * The cooked leaves can be used as a potherb. * A tincture of the plant is somewhat astringent, demulcent, laxative and tonic. The erect lower portion of the stem is smooth, but the curved branching inflorescence...

The leaves are pinnate to bipinnate with rhombic leaflets 3–6 cm long and 2–4 cm broad. Dulce) is a plant variety in the family Apiaceae, commonly used as a vegetable. * The growing plant is an insect repellent, it repels the cabbage white butterfly...

Matures in 45 days. * This Heirloom variety has been around over 100 years , has long deep green leaves high in iron, vitamins and antioxidants. It is great fresh in salads or steamed.

* The root can be cooked like parsnip. However, the inulin can be used to make a sweetener that is suitable for diabetics to use. The root is said to be an ideal food for diabetics because of its inulin content.

Leaves are grey-green, rugose on the upper side, and nearly white underneath due to the many short soft hairs. A herb tea is made from the fresh or dried leaves, it is said to improve the digestion.

* The plant has a folk history in the treatment of cancer, modern research has isolated certain compounds from the plant that show anticancer activity. The plant also contains nuciferine and aporphine.

The leaves should be used before the plant starts to flower. * Silene vulgaris or Bladder Campion is a plant species of the genus Silene of the Pink Family ( Caryophyllaceae ). * A curious perennial with small white nodding 5-petaled flowers backed by...

Its foliage is narrow and glossy with a bright green appearance. * Erect stalks topped with one or several blue 1 1/2" flowers; parent of many cultivars with white, blue, or double flowers; popular and easy to grow.

While the crown is perennial, the canes are biennial, growing vegetatively one year, flowering and fruiting the second, and then dying. * The fruit is 1–1.2 cm diameter, red to reddish-purple at first, turning dark purple to nearly black when ripe.

* The leaves contain 'stevioside', a substance that is 300 times sweeter than sucrose. * Stevia has become very popular as a natural sugar substitute with almost zero calories! * Because stevia has a negligible effect on blood glucose it is attractive...

* Crimson Sweet is a heirloom variety that has been around a long time. * It was an All American winner in 1964. * It is currently still one of the most popular varieties in the world! * Produces 20-25 lb.

* The leaves contain 'stevioside', a substance that is 300 times sweeter than sucrose. * Stevia has become very popular as a natural sugar substitute with almost zero calories! * Because stevia has a negligible effect on blood glucose it is attractive...

* Ononis spinosa is a plant belonging to the family Fabaceae , that is commonly known as spiny restharrow or just restharrow . * The whole plant is pleasantly scented when bruised.

* Glebionis coronaria is used as a leaf vegetable. Autumn sowings succeed in mild areas. The seed usually germinates within 10 - 18 days at 15°c. There is a report that secretions from the roots can be effective in controlling nematodes in the soil,...

* A perennial grass, to 3', with erect stems and leaves, very narrow; flowers and seedheads lax; native to Eurasia. * Stipa capillata is a perennial grass species in the family Poaceae , native to Europe and Asia .

With its extreme temperatures and poor rocky soil, the area rates among the world's worst farmland, yet over the centuries, Maca learned to flourish under these conditions. In Peru, maca is prepared and consumed in various ways, although traditionally...

* This species is native to the temperate regions of the old world, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, and from the British Isles through Russia, and the Middle East to China and Japan, including India.

* Sanguisorba officinalis ( Great Burnet ) is a plant in the family Rosaceae , subfamily Rosoideae . They should be harvested in the spring before the plant comes into flower. It is native throughout the cooler regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe...