Caucasian Spinach (Hablitzia tamnoides)
I had planned for our next profile to feature two closely related, but quite different perennial, ‘Spinaceous plants’, to borrow a term from Webster and Parkes (1855), namely, Sea Beet (Beta vulgaris subsp. maritima) and Caucasian Spinach (Hablitzia tamnoides). Looking back over our last post, I also realise that – with my characteristic and wildly off-the-mark expectations about how long it will take me to do something – I promised this piece would materialize about a month or so ago……