Evening Primrose - Oenothera Biennis - Annual Flower - 500 Seeds Pepper Cress both raw and cooked

both raw and cooked

This subspecies occurs in Eastern Cape and southern KwaZulu-Natal

Likes the full sun and best planted in autumn in warmer areas and spring in cool mountainous regions

Height: 200cm

Evening Primrose - Oenothera Biennis - Annual Flower - 500 Seeds Pepper Cress both raw and cookedStunning 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