Longevity Spinach is an easy to grow perennial leafy green. Its foilage is a lighter green closer to the color of lettuce. This perennial spinach really prefers shady areas. It can tolerate some sun up to part shade. If it receives too much sun, you will notice sunburn on the leaves. Compared to Okinawa Spinach, Longevity seems to have more texture which it also holds in stir fry. 
 
Longevity Spinach is truely a wonderful leafy green. Because it grows well in shade, it fits an understory or herbaecous layer of a food forest well. We like to grow it underneath fruit trees, as a hedge, or as specimen plants randomly throughout our food forest. 
 
It will bloom small orange flowers in the fall which attract pollinators. 
 
Edible Uses:
Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked in stirfries. Leaves can also be added to shakes for nutrition. 
 
Native to Southeast Asia
Grown best in full shade - partial shade
Tolerates most soil types
Sprawling growth no taller than 2'
Grows as a perennial in zones 9-11 and as a indoor perennial or annual all the way to zone 4. 
Sizes:
1 gal
Rooted Cuttings Shipped in soil and plastic wrapping
Rooted Cuttings shipped as Bare Root to save on shipping costs
 
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