Herbaceous creeping plant with thick and glossy green leaves with obvious venation. The violet blue flower is produced from a plait-like bud and has a prominent lower lip. It produces schizocarpic fruit (fruit that splits into single-seeded parts) with few seeds.
The mushroom plant gets its name from the compressed crisp leaves that smell of mushrooms. These can be eaten raw and are grown in Papua New Guinea as a vegetable crop.
We use the flavoursome mushroom plant in a great variety of ways: dried as an additive to spices, raw made into pesto or salad in the kitchen, or the fresh leaves might be plucked straight from the plant during our tropical garden tasting events.
Papua New Guinea
Propagated on site, 2012
The mushroom plant gets its name from the compressed crisp leaves that smell of mushrooms. These can be eaten raw and are grown in Papua New Guinea as a vegetable crop.
We use the flavoursome mushroom plant in a great variety of ways: dried as an additive to spices, raw made into pesto or salad in the kitchen, or the fresh leaves might be plucked straight from the plant during our tropical garden tasting events.
