Amaranthus caudatus L.
Brand: Legutko
Packaged:1,0 g
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1.40€
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Dark red foxtail - Amaranthus caudatus.
Gorgeous, bright accent in your garden.
The plant forms a powerful shrub 80 cm high. The leaves are large, elongated-ovate.
The flowers are small, carmine-red: in dense spherical glomeruli, collected in hanging paniculate inflorescences.
Inflorescences begin to bloom from June and continue to grow and bloom until frost. 
By the end of summer, they become very long and hang down to the ground effectively.
Used for single planting, creating groups in landscape compositions, in dry bouquets.




Agricultural technology.
Prefers loose, nutritious soils and sunny places.
Propagated by seeds, which are sown from May 20 to May 30 in open ground in a permanent place, followed by thinning by 40 cm.
The seeding depth is 1 cm. At a soil temperature of + 15 + 18 ° C, the time from sowing to germination is 6-14 days. Easily self-seeding.


Love lies bleeding, foxtail, Inca-wheat, red-hot-cattail, tassel flower, velvet-flower. Bot. syn.: Amaranthus edulis Speg.

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