Okinawa Spinach Starter Plant - 5 Bare Root Gynura Crepioides with Green & Purple Foliage

Okinawa Spinach Starter Plant Overview

The Okinawa Spinach Starter Plant, scientifically known as Gynura Crepioides, is a perennial garden vegetable prized for its vibrant green leaves with purple undersides. This plant not only adds visual interest to your garden but also provides nutritious foliage that can be harvested. It produces orangish flowers in spring, enhancing its appeal as both an ornamental and edible plant.

Key Features

• Striking green leaves with purple undersides
• Adaptable to sandy or rich soil types
• Thrives in full sun to partial shade environments
• Low maintenance, suitable for gardeners of all levels
• Bushy growth habit with a spreading nature, ideal as ground cover
• Easily propagated from cuttings
• Delivered as bare root starter plants for easy planting

Growing Information

Okinawa Spinach prefers rich or sandy soil and grows best in USDA hardiness zones 9 through 11. It can tolerate full sun but favors partial shade for optimal growth. Keep the soil moist, especially during hot weather, to maintain healthy foliage. The plant grows bushy and spreads, making it a lush addition to garden beds or containers.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.