ID?

can any one name this ?

Paul - I will offer an opinion that it is not something in the MG Family...

One of the Hibiscus Cannabinus
http://davesgarden.com/pf/search.php?search_text=hibiscus&images_prefs=both&Search=Search&offset=20
Janett

It looks like okra. :)


This message was edited Aug 22, 2006 9:19 AM

LoL your right Gardener just wanted to see if any one knew i grow it for the flower. i allways thought it looked a bit like MG.

Well, yoou can have the flowers, but PLEASE send me the okra!!! I just cannot get enough of it, especially since someone suggested eating it raw. It is mightly yummy!

Ha! So it Is that green veggie. I do love okra stewed with fresh tomatoes!

I never knew okra had such lovely flowers. I remember it's hard to pick, from my childhood 'u-pick-em' forages with my Mom. I might have to throw some of those out back with the pumpkins just for the flowers :)

Nice one Paul.

~Sunny

Thanks Sunny yuck i cant stand the stuff i was a chef for 40 years to

Now I have to make some okra gumbo. :)

The good thing about okra, including being rolled in cornmeal and deep fried Southern style, is that it does great in the hot summer weather. Also don't seem to have much problem with bugs.

I didn't know okra had flowers, am from the north and don't even know how to cook it. I have never even eaten it!!!! ~ Sherry, pretty flowers tho...

It is the edible lady's finger, I am sure,
Which my yarden grows for years.
The guy is very productive,
And only a few plants can serve your table
From early summer through late fall.
Personally, the cupped light yellow blooms
Are not so bad to feast my eyes
I always associate them with those
Of cotton and hibiscus or this wild one
Which is growing at the side of the country road
Carrying me back and forth to school.

Lovely!

Okra and cotton are both hibiscus family members, Malvacea. That's why the blooms
resemble hibiscus. Okra is now classed as an Abelmoschus and cotton
is in the genus Gossypium
Jackie

The leaves on the first picture look to be structured differently>as attached to the main stem (not the legume leaves)
http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=2646943
The leaves in the following photo look more dissected/palmate and and reproductive parts look to be of a different color than the first photo posted
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/Jianhua_1156342894_820.jpg

Ron i think there are diff types of Orka plants ive been growing it for 30 years but just for the flowers this plant got to 5 feet tall soome ive growed over the years reach about 2 feet

I have never seen or eaten okra...does it grow in Oregon???

sure

Fried Okra ..... yum

yuck

tsk .. your roots must be yankee paul

X

Raw - right off the plants - yum!!!