500 Seeds Red Malabar Spinach Seeds - Basella alba Pui, Vine Spinach

Thriving Vines: Planting and Growing Malabar spinach seeds for Lush, Edible Foliage Malabar spinach seeds for planting Malabar spinach, Basella alba, is a popular green leafy vegetable in other parts of the world. This tender perennial native to tropical Asia, likely India and Sri Lanka or Indonesia . Malabar Spinach (Basella alba) is an edible perennial vine that is commonly used as a leaf vegetable. It goes by many common names, including Pui, vine spinach, red vine spinach, climbing spinach, creeping spinach, buffalo spinach, malabar spinach and ceylon spinach. We call it “red malabar” at the house to differentiate between our other green variety.   Malabar is actually the name of a southern region of India where it’s native. It’s also found in southeast Asia and New Guinea, China, tropical Africa, Brazil, Belize, Colombia, the West Indies, Fiji and French Polynesia. When Malabar Spinach goes to seed, it does so in the form of small tasteless bl