Water spinach 'Yangtze' / 'Large Leaf'
- Product number: 318000
- Origin: South and Southeast Asia
- Latin: Ipomoea aquatica
Water spinach is popular in all tropical regions as a leafy vegetable for quick stir-frying or cooking. The leaves and tender stems are a delicious vegetable! This is a very successful variety in Dutch greenhouses! Green-leaved with green leaf veins and few thin tendrils. Cut 5 cm above the ground; the plant will quickly regrow for a subsequent harvest. This improved selection was developed in Thailand and is the market leader in the Far East.
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Latin: Ipomoea aquatica
Dutch: Waterspinazie
Also known as: Kankong, Kangkong, Kang-Kung, Ong Choi, Dagoeblad, En Tsai
English: Water Spinach, Water Convolvulus
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- Flower colour: N/A
- Origin: South and Southeast Asia
- Average growth height: 60 to 90 cm
- Annual or perennial: Annual
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- Winter hardy: Not frost hardy
- Ease of cultivation: Easy
- Latin: Ipomoea aquatica
- Dutch: Water spinach
- Also known as: Kankong, Kangkong, Kang-Kung, Ong Choi, Dagoeblad, En Tsai
- English: Water Spinach, Water Convolvulus
