Evening Primrose - Oenothera Biennis - Annual Flower - 500 Seeds Pepper Cress Plant produces attractive pinky-red stems

Plant produces attractive pinky-red stems

originally called the "HP22B"

Height: 200cm

The first fruit can be expected within 2 to 3 years of planting

Evening Primrose - Oenothera Biennis - Annual Flower - 500 Seeds Pepper Cress Plant produces attractive pinky-red stemsStunning 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