Evening Primrose - Oenothera Biennis - Annual Flower - 500 Seeds Pepper Cress Likes the full sun and

Likes the full sun and best planted in autumn in warmer areas and spring in cool mountainous regions

It is a deciduous suckering shrub growing to 3 m or more tall

both raw and cooked

the only real difference being in the seed capsule structure

In the fruit which is red till olive-green coloured and basal opening are up to 200 seeds

Evening Primrose - Oenothera Biennis - Annual Flower - 500 Seeds Pepper Cress Likes the full sun andStunning yellow flowers with medicinal properties. Young roots can be eaten like a vegetable (with a peppery flavour), or the shoots can be eaten as a salad. The whole plant was used to prepare an infusion with astringent and sedative properties. It was considered to be effective in healing asthmatic coughs, gastro intestinal disorders, whooping cough and as a sedative pain killer. Poultices containing O. biennis were at one time used to ease bruises