Candlestick Cassia Plant

Candlestick Cassia PlantLatin name Senna alata Candlestick Cassia is a favorite food forest addition for many reasons. Its showy yellow flower spikes are stunning and its irregular growth pattern is an interesting addition to the landscape. This plant is excellent for chop n drop as well as boasting a long list of medicinal applications. Did we mention that its a host plant to sulfur butterflies as well?! All of these factors make this an essential food forest shrub.

Plant in full sun and in well draining soil

although they do tend to exhibit nutritional deficiencies more easily than other mangos

dark green leaves that taste like mushroom

with several people naming it one of their favorites

Mid-Late Season / Classic-Acidic Flavor / Origin: Florida

producing mid-season mangos which have been disease resistant and productive

and the flavor is somewhere between a mild Indochinese and a Thai mango

tastes delightful

and is one of the more widely produced commercial varieties

guajava– 28 degrees

” The mild fruits are enjoyed right off the tree

Fruit Punch is one of the varieties that we recommend eating up to the skin