Navajo Spinach
- Product number: 203450
- Origin: North America
- Latin: Cleome serrulata
A highly sought-after plant, used as food for thousands of years! This North American plant has an incredibly strong smell, but that doesn't deter enthusiasts from eating the leaves raw. Cooked, stir-fried, or mixed into patties is the most common way to use it. The young shoots, leaves, flowers, and seeds are all edible! The Zuni Indians, for example, had a well-known dish with corn, Navajo Spinach, and peppers... The plant is also popular among Native Americans as a (yellow-green) dye and medicine. As an ornamental plant in the flower garden, this Cleome is of course very useful; its height depends on the soil type and varies between 30-150 cm. The large clusters of wine-red to lilac-pink (sometimes white) flowers strongly resemble those of the ornamental plant Cat's Whiskers. Finally: bees and butterflies gratefully feed from the flowers.
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Latin: Cleome serrulata
Dutch: Navajo-Spinazie
Also known as: Cleome serrulata
English: Rocky Mountain Beeplant, Stinking-Clover, Bee Spider-Flower, Skunk Weed, Navajo Spinach
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- Flower colour: Wine-red to lilac-pink, sometimes white flowers
- Origin: North America
- Average growth height: 30 to 60 cm
- Annual or perennial: Annual
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- Winter hardy: Not frost hardy
- Ease of cultivation: Moderate
- Latin: Cleome serrulata
- Dutch: Navajo Spinach
- Also known as: Cleome serrulata
- English: Rocky Mountain Beeplant, Stinking-Clover, Bee Spider-Flower, Skunk Weed, Navajo Spinach
