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Species: Amaranthus
Latin name: Amaranthus caudatus
Other usual name: Pendant Amaranth - Love Lies Bleeding - Tassel Flower - Velvet Flower - Foxtail Amaranth - Quilete - Inca Wheat
Variety: Amaranthus
Family: Amarantacées
Origin: Africa, India, South America
The Amaranthus: Perennial variety which strongly fears freezing, it is mainly cultivated like an annual in our areas, large frosts are rare in our regions enough to protect them in winter. Blood red flowers that bloom in narrow, dropping, tail like panicles, throughout the growing season. Leaves are oval, light green and persistent. Excellent for your solid masses and estival decoration, you also can cut flowers to integrate in a bouquet. Very easy to cultivate.
Seed sowing: March to May
Flowering of Amaranthus: All summer long
Height: Amaranthus reaches on average 60 to 100 m
Exposure: Sunny
Sowing instructions: Seed sowing from March to May in pot, maintain at room temperature of 18 °C, transplant in open ground as soon as the plants are easy to handle. Sowing can be made directly in place after last frost date, sow clearly and clear out in distance of 20 to 25 cm.
Sowing distance: 20 to 25 cm between plants
Minimum seed sowing temperature: 18 °C to 20°C
Net weight of seeds: 1 gr +/- 175 seeds
All our seeds are sold with their sowing instructions.
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