Sokoyokoto celosia
$4.00 – $6.00
(Celosia argentea)
Also called Lagos spinach, this West African cooking green is very similar to amaranth. However, unlike the leaf amaranths, it does not suffer from Phomopsis amaranthicola, a disease which in some parts of North America abruptly kills them in late summer. It is also beautiful; the popular ornamental flower cockscomb is simply a different selection of this species.