Trailing Abutilon (Abutilon megapotamicum)

Family: Malvaceae | Edibility: Choice Edible (4/5)

A medium size evergreen shrub growing to 2m. A lax plant, with arching branches, large red calyces and small yellow lantern blooms. It can be trained over arches or as a weeping standard. There are two forms of this species, one prostrate, making a good ground cover the other upright.Flowers are used as a vegetable and have a pleasant sweet flavour, we find them delicious to eat raw.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Flowers

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Spring

Flavor & Culinary Uses

pleasant sweet flavour, we find them delicious to eat raw. — Flowers - cooked.; Used as a vegetable.; A pleasant sweet flavour, we find them delicious to eat raw.; The flowers are produced from mid spring until the autumn - they produce nectar all the time they are open so, assuming the plant is grown indoors and is not visited by pollinating insects, the sweetness increases the longer the flower is open.

Habitat & North American Range

Widely cultivated in the Tropics and not known in a truly wild situation. (Zone 7, Zone 8, Zone 9, Zone 10)