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Abelmoschus esculentus
Okra, Gumbo, Lady's Fingers
| Southerners savor this heat-loving vegetable as a main dish and in gumbos. They are excellent boiled, steamed, pickled and deep fried in soups, stews and sauces. Harvest the tender, finger-like seed pods every few days for highest nutritional value, to increase production and keep them from getting tough. The plants have tropical-looking leaves and yellow hibiscus-like flowers. Best grown where summers are long. In colder climates, plants yield fewer pods. |
Use varieties such as 'Park's Candelabra Branching' and 'Lee' in small gardens. An All-America Selections, 'Burgundy', has red pods which turn green when cooked.
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Attributes - Abelmoschus esculentus
Plant Type: Vegetable
Height: 3 ft. to 6 ft.
Width: 3 ft.
Sunlight: Full Sun
Notes: Thrives in Hot Climates. Container Plants, Edible. Susceptible to Aphids, Caterpillars, Spider Mites.
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