Okra

Description

Okra leaves are heart-shaped and three- to five-lobed. The flowers are yellow with a crimson center. The fruit, or pod, hairy at the base, is a tapering **-angled capsule ***5 cm (**0 inches) in length (except in the dwarf varieties) that contains numerous oval dark-colored seeds.

Okra fruit is elongated and originates individually on the axil of the leaf; it is exposed in an erect manner, perpendicular to the stem, joined to the plant by a small pedicle, with an ellipsoid basal end and a conical apical end; each plant developed an average of *0.4 fruits (Table 1), with 7 to *4 mature fruits.