Tulsi, aka Holy Basil or Queen of Herbs, is a highly aromatic perennial ayurvedic herb native to India.  It is almost effortless to grow and requires little care once established.  Like most Basil's, it has a shrubby growing habit and will reach 2-4 ft tall! Tulsi has delicate pink flowers, hairy stems, and green leaves. The plant is both edible and medicinal and utilized heavily as a cooking spice in Indian cuisine and ancient Ayurvedic medicine.

Holy Basil works wonders for you in your garden as an excellent companion plant! It's strong aromatic oils including Eugenol, Oleanoic Acid, Ursolic Acid, Rosmarinic Acid, and Linalool help make it a natural pest repellent. These constituents within the plant also contribute to the plant's traditional known medicinal effects. Grow this healthy plant in your home or garden! It's a great opportunity to pick your own fresh leaves and flowers, so you too can make your own "elixir of life" tea, as it is known for its flavor profile of being cooling and mellow, and bearing scents of peppermint, cloves, licorice and lemon.

Curry Leaf, also known as Sweet Neem is a small tropical/subtropical tree known for it's aromatic leaves. Curry Leaf is in the same family of plants as oranges, clementines, and limes (Rutaceae, the Citrus Fruit Family). Curry Leaf grows as a small tree with aromatic leaves.

This plant is primarily used as a culinary herb and cooking spice. Fresh leaves are usually added to rice or dried then powdered for use in Indian cuisine. The flavor is delightful and spicy! The fruit pulp can be eaten, but it shares the same flavor as the leaves. It's best used in cooking hot curry dishes. 

The plant is traditionally used in Ayurvedic medicine. It is claimed to help with the treatment of diabetes. Currently scientists are looking at an extract made from Murraya koenigii for use as a treatment against breast cancer. The primary constituent in Curry Leaf is cinnamaldehyde, which is also commonly found in cinnamon.  

Strawberry Tree fruit will surprise you with it's fantastic buttered popcorn cotton candy flavor nearly year-round!  Muntingia calabura, also known as Strawberry Tree or Jamaican Cherry, is a small fast growing tropical fruit tree or shrub with small white flowers that resemble those of a strawberry plant, and produces tons of red bite-size edible berries that resemble cherries and ripen quickly. Strawberry Tree fruit will surprise you with it's fantastic cotton candy flavor with a hint of buttered popcorn. It’s fruit is loved by birds and squirrels, but don't worry, since it produces almost all year long there’s enough fruit for everyone to enjoy abundantly.  Medicinally, the blossoms are said to possess antiseptic properties.  Strawberry Tree is easy to grow and thrives with little care.

The plant has its roots in Central and South America with its native range stretching all the way from Southern Mexico through the Caribbean and south to Peru. You will not find this rare fruit at market even in its native range due to short shelf life so picking it off the tree and eating it fresh is a must if you want to experience this wholesome and exotic flavor.

Sow Exotic's best-selling plant is BACK! The Florida Cranberry is an annual fruiting hibiscus grown in the spring that produces tasty and medicinal fruit in the fall.  Because Florida Cranberry is an annual, we're only able to carry them for a short period of time.

Florida Cranberry is best known for the edible leaves and flower calyxes.  The culinary "fruit" is actually the enlarged flower calyx. It has a crisp apple-like texture and a tart cranberry-like flavor. When brewed as a tea, it has a beautiful bright red color.

Florida Cranberry is an amazing plant to grow in your edible landscape, especially here in Florida where it has a rich history as an original homesteaders plant.  It grows very easily without irrigation in any soil type, yielding many pounds of highly nutritious and delicious fruit.  It is virtually drought tolerant and disease resistant. 

The fruit has many uses! Of course they can easily be eaten fresh, but also dehydrated for teas and fruit leather, distilled, fermented into beer and wine and kombucha, made into juices or syrups, or used in floral arrangements, and the list goes on. 

Medicinally, Florida Cranberry is proven to lower blood pressure. Florida Cranberry is grown around the world and is known by many names, including Roselle, Jamaican Sorrel, Fleur de Jamaica or Gongura.  We encourage folks of all backgrounds - from growers to grocers, craft beer makers to chefs, pastry chefs to florists - to introduce this fantastic fruit into your garden and kitchen!

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Ube, also known as Purple Yam, among many other names, is a species of yam (a tuber) native to the Asian tropics. The tubers are usually vivid violet-purple to bright lavender in color. It grows as a vine and ground cover with heart shaped leaves. It is a tender perennial and will grow wonderfully with little care or attention. Ube has become naturalized throughout much of the sub-tropical world and has a variety of different uses. In Southeast Asia, particularly in the Philippines where the vividly purple root is widely used in deserts, such as ice cream, Swiss rolls, donuts, tarts, cookies, cupcakes, cakes, jam and other types of pastries. It is often eaten boiled, baked, or as a sweetened dessert called ube halayá (halo-halo ice cream).

The bright purple edible tubers have a mildly sweet, earthy and nutty taste, reminiscent of sweet potatoes or taro. They turn dishes distinctively vivid violet due to the high amount of anthocyanins. Ube are also valued for the starch that can be processed from them. Grow your own Ube and try your own exciting culinary creations!