Longevity Spinach – Live Starter Plants – Gynura Procumbens – Grow Your Own Vegetables and Fruit in The Garden or Patio

Longevity spinach, also known as Gynura procumbens, is growing in popularity thanks to its benefits as green, leafy spinach! Longevity spinach, also known as the longevity green, is a veggie plant famous worldwide but primarily found in Africa, China, and Southeast Asia. It would thrive in areas that have tropical climates, being native in terrestrial, warm locations and habitats. Longevity spinach grows to a maximum height of 12 inches, with a minimum height of 6 inches. Come spring season, the plant would grow flowers, showing orange inflorescences on its axillary stem. The leaves of the longevity spinach are fleshy and smooth, rounder in shape to ovate, with greenish on the upper side, while it is purplish underneath. The leaves have a width of 1.3 inches and a length of 3 inches. When growing longevity spinach indoors or outdoors, you should know that they are hardy, growing well in indoor and outdoor environments. When you grow them outdoors and spread them, they trail up or cover the ground. You can also trim them to grow more like bushes. If they grow in a pot, you can clip them.