Abelmoschus esculentus (Red Okra)

150 (200)cm, Red Okra or Red Lady Finger is an annual to short-lived perennial with utmost beautiful, large pale lemon-yellow flowers above deeply lobed reddish leaves and up to 20cm long, deep red, finger-like seed capsules. These are taken unripe, watered for several hours, cooked and added to various traditional dishes from Africa to the Middle East and India as a vegetable. Abelmoschus esculentus is known from cultivation only and may be an ancient stabilized hybrid with Abelmoschus tuberculatus from India as one parent. For any rich, well drained substrate in full sun and sufficient watering in summer at a minimum of some 20°C. Best cultivated as an annual vegetable at a constantly rather high temperature in a greenhouse or wintergarden. Not only for the edible fruits, but for the color as well, this is a splendid ornamental plant. VII-IX.
10 seeds per package.

U.S. customers only: seeds cannot be shipped to the U.S.