Water: Regular

Features:

• Grown for fleshy red calyxes surrounding base of flowers
• Used for making tea, sauce, jelly
• Fruits are harvested about 20 days after flowering or before seed pod opens. Break fleshy calyxes away from seed pod and dry in a single layer using low heat.
• Need little fertilizer
• Roselle is a short-day plant and photoperiodic
• Mature fruit size is up to 1/2 inch in diameter.
• http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/roselle.html

Considerations:

• Need long hot summers--fruit take up to 6 months to mature
• Bloom begins as days shorten
• Early frosts prevent harvest
• Susceptible to root knot nematodes

Landscape Use:

• Narrow contemporary hedge