500 Evening Primrose Seeds for Planting -

Edible Uses: Root - cooked. Boiled and eaten like salsify. Fleshy, sweet and succulent. Wholesome and nutritious.A peppery taste. The taste somewhat resembles salsify or parsnips. Young shoots - raw or cooked. Mucilaginous,with a peppery flavour, they are best used sparingly. Another source suggests that the shoots should not be eaten.Flowers - sweet. Used in salads or as a garnish. Young seedpods - cooked. Steamed. The seed contains 28% of adrying oil. It is edible and a very good source of gamma-linolenic acid, an essential fatty acid that is not found inmany plant sources and has numerous vital functions in the body. The seed, however, is very small and difficult toharvest, it has to be done by hand. Overall yields are low, making the oil very expensive to produce.