Red Malabar Spinach is a beautiful, tropical vining plant with a gorgeous red stem and thick, dark green, heart-shaped leaves. While not a true spinach, it is remarkably spinach-like in flavor, and is better suited to summer growing than spinach since it loves hot, humid weather. Ideal for soups, salads and stir fries.

Other names include basella, ceylon spinach, climbing spinach, Surinam spinach, Indian spinach, slippery vegetable, Malabar nightshade, vine spinach, and vine vegetable.

In Japanese restaurants breaded and fried leaves are often served as appetizers. Heat tolerant, this burgundy and green vine is effective in displays, like the agriculture one at Epcot Center.

70 days

Approx 50 seeds per pack