Unique & Unusual Edibles

Cymbopogon citratus An easily grown perennial herb, essential to Thai and Southeast Asian cuisine. It is also used to add lemon flavor to herbal te...

Pisidium littorale 'Lemon' Lemon "strawberry" guava can help you bring the taste of the tropics indoors! This native Brazillian bush can be widely ...

Zanthoxylum simulans The highly fragrant seeds and leaves are used in Chinese cooking. This shrub (which sports large, fat thorns) grows to up 10' ...

Prunus tomentosa Hardy to -40F! Harvest an abundance of flavorful, tart cherry-like fruit in early summer, from beautiful dwarf trees. These seedli...

Camellia sinensis 'Sochi' Tea plants, originally native to China and Southeast Asia, are very important plants for humans worldwide. The green and ...

Asimina triloba 'Allegheny®' Allegheny® Paw Paw boasts remarkable flavor and yields, with fruit up to 0.5 lbs in weight if thinned early. Distincti...

Asimina triloba 'Maria's Joy' Bred by Jerry Lehman of Terre Haute, Indiana, Maria's Joy Pawpaw is a award-winning variety with delectable, banana-l...

Crataegus pinnatifida 'Red Sun' Red Sun is prized for its unique oak-leaf like foliage and large, tasty fruit. Know in China as Shan Zha, this attr...

Grow your own edible ginger root indoors! Harvested while young, the rhizomes will be more tender and juicier than grocery store ginger, with a sli...

 Camellia Sinensis is a plant native to China and Southeast Asia, is globally a very important plant for humans. The black and green teas made from...

Capparis spinosa var. inermis This shrub with arching stems grows to three feet tall. It produces an abundance of small flower buds on first-year b...

Passiflora incarnata This unique form of Maypop features large, striking, snow-white flowers. These prolific, fragrant blooms are borne on this att...

Physalis peruviana 'Giant Goldenberry' Giant Goldenberry is also known by the names Cape Gooseberry, or Peruvian Groundcherry. This beauty is a nig...

Ficus carica 'Little Ruby' Little Ruby is tiny but mighty! So small it's grown by some as a bonsai specimen, it both ripens a fall crop regularly i...

Chaenomeles speciosa 'Contorta' Gorgeous pink flowers cover this unusually contorted 2-3' tall shrub in the very early spring. Cut branches can be ...

Eleagnus multiflora 'Sweet Scarlet' Be ready to enjoy loads of nutritious, tasty scarlet berries from this hardy bush! This Ukrainian variety was s...

Passiflora incarnata 'PinkPop' A rare pink variety of hardy Maypop, this passion flower blooms with large vivid lavender-pink blossoms! Flowers, le...

Myrtus ugni molinae The attractive and hard-to-find Chilean Guava, aka Strawberry Myrtle, bears red, 1 cm (or just under 1/2 inch) oval fruit with ...

Asimina triloba 'Rebecca's Gold' An excellent variety, selected from Davis seed in 1974 by J. M. Riley, Rebecca's Gold produces large, very sweet a...

Crataegus pinnatifida var. major 'Big Golden Star' Unlike the common hawthorn, this tree has few or no thorns, which makes gathering the fruit much...

(Dioscorea batatas) Cinnamon scented flowers and heart shaped leaves adorn this vigorous deciduous vine. In the mountains of northern China it pro...

Camellia sinensis var. rubra 'Blushing Maiden' The tea camellia is a plant native to China and Southeast Asia; the black and green teas made fr...

(Amoracia rusticana) Plant this vigorous root 3 inches deep in a rich soil with full sun, spacing two feet from other plants. Harvest roots after f...

Tropaeolum tuberosum Mashua (pronounced Mah-shwuh) is an Andean tuber. A relative of the garden nasturtium, Mashua is one of the highest-yielding, ...