Tunis cake
- Product number: 694100
- Origin: Asia
- Latin: Toona sinensis
A delicious microgreen that sublimely combines the flavour of lovage and spring onions. Delicious in salads and dishes with egg or meat. When fully grown, it becomes the Chinese Mahogany tree, see 352900.
This variety is cultivated as a microgreen (for the young plant with cotyledons or first true leaves). Microgreens are grown on moisture-retaining material (kitchen roll, cotton wool, soil). Keep dark and warm for germination, then light and cooler after germination.
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Latin: Toona sinensis
Dutch: Toona-Kers
Also known as: Maggiboom
English: Chinese Mahogany
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- Flower colour: N/A
- Origin: Asia
- Average growth height: More than 200 cm
- Annual or perennial: Perennial
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- Winter hardy: Not frost hardy
- Ease of cultivation: Moderate
- Latin: Toona sinensis
- Dutch: Tunis cake
- Also known as: Maggi tree
- English: Chinese Mahogany
