Fruit of Yesterday: Hibiscus

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Hibiscus
Okay, so this isn’t really a fruit, but part of it is edible. Premature hibiscus flowers are edible, and they taste kind of like salted celery. As a bonus, the flowers look gorgeous.

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If you want hibiscus to eat and don’t care about the showy flowers, there’s another variety: Cranberry hibiscus. It has a mutation that makes flowers not develop, so you have tons of extra premature flowers to eat. On top of that, this variety tastes better. As its name suggests, it tastes like cranberry. Even better, it has red leaves, which means it can grow in the shade where most fruiting plants can’t.

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Some people are obsessed with these. They’re very hard to come by, but a place near me carries them in their online store when they’re in season (September-December).

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If you live in Florida, you should have a hibiscus even if you don’t want the fruit. They grow easily with little fertilizer and have prettier flowers than roses (I’ve tried to grow roses, and they’re waaay too much work to make look pretty in our soil). Hibiscus runs basically on auto-pilot. Get one.