Evening Primrose - Oenothera Biennis - Annual Flower - 500 Seeds Melon delicious tasting roots are ideal

delicious tasting roots are ideal for baking

(dichotomous meaning forked)

production up to 4kg of delicious cherry-sized fruit in a single season

imposing Cabbage Tree that thrives in hot dry areas

Milky-green leaves in rosette

Evening Primrose - Oenothera Biennis - Annual Flower - 500 Seeds Melon delicious tasting roots are idealStunning yellow flowers with medicinal properties. Young roots can be eaten like a vegetable (with a peppery flavour), or the shoots can be eaten as a salad. The whole plant was used to prepare an infusion with astringent and sedative properties. It was considered to be effective in healing asthmatic coughs, gastro intestinal disorders, whooping cough and as a sedative pain killer. Poultices containing O. biennis were at one time used to ease bruises