Ever heard of Roselle, AKA Rosella? 🌿 This plant needs a long, warm growing season to really thrive – seedlings are usually planted in late spring or early summer and they love full sun. Not only can you eat the leaves (they’ve got a nice, tangy flavor!), but it’s mainly grown for its calyxes. Those bright, vibrant calyxes are used to make things like hibiscus tea, jams, sauces, and more! 🍹🌸 If you’re into edible plants that look awesome and have tons of uses, roselle’s definitely one to consider adding to your garden, especially if you live in a warmer region! 🌱🍃
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48 Comments
It looks like a baby dragon fruit
This is a variety of okra. We call it tak vendi(tak means sour and vendi means okra) in odia language in india.
You can make stew or soup with the leaves
Add chopped onions, leaves, dried or fried fish,salt,chilli, and optional fermented fish paste
Healthy dish
How do you store grown food? On rnz Great Barrier Island Resident Gregory gave recipe ideas for low sugar perseveres, but that needs to be eaten quickly. Is fermentation the answer…..
Thats called Gongura in telugu
Roselle..? 👀
I’ve heard it being called many things in different parts of the world but never that.
Sorrel in Jamaica or Hibiscus or bissap in Africa. It comes in white too. It makes delicious foods but especially very refreshing juice after the flowers are desiccated.
It also gives a lot of Vitamins when not cooked of course.
We call this sorrel in Jamaica, traditionally made into a drink at Christmas time, paired with our christmas rum cake. There is also a white variety, which is just as refreshing.
Am from Northern Uganda,In my tribe it is called MALAKWNG in the Local Language, it is very nice we paste it machine grind(simsim+Gnuts). What is it name in English
Start them inside first and put a good amount of solar lights on them with a shade when it gets cold, maybe just a wind tunnel or greenhouse. These are sorrel or Hibiscus. We make tea and juice with the fruit. They do grow quickly.
Ooh where do you get seeds from please?
Yoo the land before time throwback
I drink hibiscus tea all the time. Lovely tea and very healthy. ❤ I'm wanting to grow it too 👍
The image that the reel uses at its thumbnail is hilarious ps land before time clip goated😆😂
In india where i live, it is called Ambadi.
Uhuu they are sour 🐶🐶🤤🤤
They are amazing! Ours are growing wild in the tropics of Australia. We love them!
Oh yes I seen the pods in tea's and Jams especially. Great work with the Beetroot I use to love growing those with my Grandad growing up and even better when its time preserve them I loved the whole process and I always found them easy to grow.
What region of nz are you growing them in? Im lower north island & hesitated over sowing the seeds for this season because im not sure how long they need it to be hot for & weather is wacky
Which month did you have the seedling? I bought a wee seedling and placed in a bucket on the north side of my black barn in kaiwaka (north kaipara), and am hoping for some calyxes at the end of the season. They reckon it’s a number-of-days thing ….?
Ooh, we grow these. They take about three months from first adult leaves to setting fruit; the plants have varying degrees of cold tolerance (I've been trying to select mine for that) but they're not frost-hardy so if you get down to 0C then it's game over. That makes them an annual where I live, since we get about two weeks of frost in the winter.
Your variety looks like mine, though, which grows very large and produces a huge initial crop of fruit/calyces, and then often dies off from the strain even without being frosted. Our healthiest lines manage two or three harvests and then they're done. They also tend to open their flowers for pollination in the early moring and then close them again before noon, so if your pollinators aren't out early then you might have to brush-pollinate; that could be why you're getting flowers but no fruit.
We call this Sorrel in Antigua and Barbuda. They're used to make a beloved Sorrel drink year round but are a Christmas staple.
Great channel bro-your passion is awesome! …if you cook it like spinach and add garlic, onions and chili it's called khatta bhaji/sour spinach in Fiji
They're really fast growing, and also very tall
I didn't know their young leaf is edible
Known as Jamaica in Mexico. Immediate pre or post flowering, the blooms are used to make Jamaica tea, a refeshing beverage served with ice and sweetened a little.
We call it sorrel in the Caribbean
These are easy and lovely to grow in the Southeast USA. ❤
@TheKiwiGrower we grow them where I'm from. Try using dried Grass stalk and cover the soil and water so the moisture stays trapped and mould the base occasionally
Would these work in a greenhouse to extend the growing season?
That's a well recognised plant in Andhra Pradesh (India)… Called as Gongura in local language… They prepare curry and pickles out of these leaves… Believe me, atleast one delicacies made from this leaf is a must in almost every meal. It's very rich in Iron content.
I’m just about to go and harvest my first big batch of Roselle calyxes today! I have one bush loaded with flowers, they grew so easily for me. I put another two plants in, they’re just getting established, but hopefully will flower before winter so I can harvest more.
Such an amazing colour and I can’t wait to make some of the drinks I’ve seen being made online. I won’t be adding any sugar to it though!
Also, thanks for the tip on eating the leaves, I’ll have to try it when I’m harvesting my calyxes ❤❤❤
Karkade is a short-day plant, so it flowers when days get shorter and nights get longer. That’s why it blooms after the autumnal equinox (around September 22 in the Northern Hemisphere). In New Zealand, this happens in March. You can get it to flower earlier by reducing its daylight exposure, like placing it in a dark spot in the evening, or covering it
Flor de Jamaica in Spanish, hibiscus flower in the U.S.
Mi esposo ❤
The leaves are loved by the North eastern Indian's for summer dish
In South India
It’s called as Pundi palya
We make a dish by adding dal with it.
grow more native New Zealand plants
Some places call this hibiscus. I just bought seeds to grow them for the first time this year. I’ll be starting thrm them the first week of March. I hope I have success with them.
Sorrel in the Caribbean, hibiscus is Latin America
Beautiful garden brother❤❤❤❤
Use Copper rods to boost their growth.
The name is sorrel
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We also have these plants in Vietnam. Very sour. It would be nice to make syrup
get u a variety that produce fruit early .. the variety u have is called late bearing .. it's called sorrel in Trinidad and Tobago
Last year, I planted this plant for the first time, we call it hibiscus, and because of the abnormal heat and long warm period, it was able to bloom. But interestingly, it has grown to almost 2 meters in height. It crushed all the plants under it, it was almost 1.5 meters in diameter. We dried the inflorescences and make tea. Red, very tasty, similar to fruit.
We call it ‘Gankhiang’ in a Northeastern part of India. (Manipur, Tamenglong) This is the red stem one. We have another varieties too. We cook the leaves and eat it.
Check the Indian dishes and uses of this plant, this is really life saving plant, from food to clothes, medicine you can have
i grew these from seeds and made jam last year ❤