FREE: Red vine Malabar spinach (Basella rubra)

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Malabar Spinach, Red Vine Spinach, Creeping Spinach, Climbing Spinach Basella rubra.

The plant has many names and is native to the East Indies. It is a vigorous, climbing, tropical vine as (1) an annual leafy vegetable for cultivation of its edible spinach-like stems and leaves or (2) as an ornamental foliage vine. This is a fast-growing tropical vine that, if trained on a support, will rise to 6' tall in a single season. Although in a different family than spinach, the leaves taste like spinach and, unlike spinach, the plants thrive in hot summer weather. Leaves and stems are a good source of Vitamins A and C, calcium and iron. Small purple-white flowers may appear at the end of the summer (plants will not flower until daylight decreases to less than 12 hours per day).

'Red Stem' features showy red stems clad with thick, glossy, heart-shaped, medium green leaves.

Can be grown indoors too.

I will send 5+ seeds and if you use GIN I will double the seeds.

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