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Red Orach Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 38-38
Description: Red-purple, spinach-shaped leaves.

Triple Purple Orach Overall Rating: (4.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 38-38
Description: 5-foot plants with wed-purple spinach-shaped leaves with mild flavor.

Aurora Mix Orach Overall Rating: (3.0 Stars):
1 Rating
Days to Maturity: 38-38
Description: Mixed colored leaves of gold, purple, dark purple, and day-glo carmine.

Oracle Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 40-40
Description: Deep-purple leaftops and brilliant fuchsia undersides. Small percent green leaves.

Golden Orach Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 45-45
Description: Bright, lime-green, lightly savoyed leaves.

Magenta Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 38-38
Description: Bright, day-glo magenta leaves. Slow grower and less vigorous than most other orachs. Also known as 'Magenta Magic'.

Variety not specified Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Self-seeding annual related to lambsquarters. Young leaves used as garnish or cooked green. (Doesn't lose color when cooked.) At maturity, 6-foot plants bear colorful ornamental seed heads used in dried flower arrangements.

Fire Red Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 22-40
Description: Improved red orach. Rapidly growing, erect plants with brilliant crimson-purple, arrowheadshaped leaves. Harvest for baby greens in 22 days.

Green Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: 3- to 5-foot plants produce green leaves. Tolerates heat and saline soil.

Double Purple Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 30-30
Description: 5-foot plants produce large, thick, savoyed, arrow-shaped, deep-purple leaves.

Ruby Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Plants produce magenta leaves that turn green when cooked. Also known as 'Ruby Orach Mountain Spinach'.

Purple Passion Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: 4- to 10-foot plants produce deep purple leaves.

Passion Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Frost- and heat-resistant plants produce large purple leaves.

Valentine Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Frost- and heat-resistant plants produce large red leaves.

Red Aztec Huauzontle Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 60-60
Description: Not orach but Chenopodium berlandieri, an heirloom, warm-season green from Mexico. Tender young leaves can be eaten raw, or cook mature leaves.

Rose Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: NA-NA
Description: Plants grow to 5 feet tall, but leaves are best harvested when plants are 18 inches or less.

Magentaspreen Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 40-50
Description: Chenopodium gigantium, 6-foot-tall, large-leaved relative of lambsquarters. Plants produce tender, iridescent magenta leaves. Harvest as cut-and come greens when 6 to 8 inches tall. Self-sows. Open pollinated.

Mardi Gras Mix Orach Overall Rating: Not Yet Rated Days to Maturity: 50-50
Description: Mix of open-pollinated plants produce purple, gold and green leaves.
 
 
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