This aptly named tender perennial will add a taste of mushroom to salads and sandwiches, becoming stronger in flavour when added to cooked dishes at the last minute of cooking. A good edible houseplant with its thick, glossy, dark green edible leaves which have a crispy texture, similar to spinach. Plants will also produce showy little blue flowers in the late summer. Overwinter indoors by cutting the plant down to 15cm tall in the autumn before frosts. Height 60cm, spread upto 40cm. Plants prefer to be grown in the shade. Supplied in 9cm pots.