Lettuce Leaf Basil - Heirloom Herb - Ocimum basilicum - 50 Seeds Cacti or purplish

or purplish

and becomes covered in peppers that start out purple

They generally appear in winter and are pure white (sometimes tinged with pink or red)

Description - An indispensable ingredient in Indian Cooking

deciduous shrub which grows 8-15' tall

Lettuce Leaf Basil - Heirloom Herb - Ocimum basilicum - 50 Seeds Cacti or purplishBroad, crinkly, aromatic leaves that are not only attractive but delicious. The aroma is beautiful, and the flavour is more sweet than spicy with a gentle mild bite. Basil Lettuce Leaf earns its name with big, slightly serrated and crinkled leaves up to 10cm wide and 15cm long. Very closely set on well branched plants 45 60cm tall, they keep coming all season just pinch off the flower buds as they form, and Lettuce Leaf will keep growing more foliage!