Wasabi

Landscaping

Wasabi can enhance landscaping in shaded areas with its vibrant leaves and unique growth habit. Suitable for a shady spot in the edible garden, where you can harvest the leaves for salads and the rhizomes for the spicey paste. Ideal around water features or ponds.
Culinary & Nutrition

It is renowned for its pungent and fiery flavour, which is predominantly used in Japanese cuisine, particularly as a condiment for sushi and sashimi. It has a complex flavour profile that includes sweet and vegetal notes, along with its characteristic heat. Wasabi is low in calories, rich in antioxidants and has anti-inflammatory properties it contains Vitamin C, and minerals such as potassium.
Growing Conditions

Wasabi prefers a cool climate but high humidity. Wasabi grows best in filtered sunlight or partial shade. A well-draining, rich, loamy soil with lost of organic matter. Wasabi requires a moist environment.
Allow adequate spacing between plants (about 30cm apart).

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Wasabi or Japanese Horseradish is a must for all fans of Japanese food, most often used with sushi as well as fish dishes. The highly flavoursome, slightly pungent spicy Wasabi paste has a strong hot intensity, similar to hot mustard but disappears quickly, leaving a sweet taste with no burning sensation. The Wasabi rhizomes/stems are finely grated or ground into a paste, the paste does loose its flavour quickly if left uncovered. Leaves can be eaten raw and have a spicy flavour, but a common side effect is diarrhea.

The Wasabi plant enjoys a shady position and high humidity, often found near rocky streams in Japan. Can easily be grown in containers with a free draining mix, with plenty of water. The large leaves are on long thin stalks given a lush green canopy, with white flowers appearing from late winter to early spring. Harvest the rhizomes in Autumn.

Wasabi japonica ‘Mazuma’