🌿 Culantro / Recao
Eryngium foetidum
herbs
biennial/perennial herbaceous
☀️ Sun
Partial Shade
💧 Water
Moderate to High
🗺️ Zones
4-9
🧪 Soil pH
6.0-7.0
📏 Spacing
6-12 in. apart, 12-18 in. between rows
⏱️ Maturity
55-70 days (from seed); 45-60 days from transplant
🍴 Edible Parts
🍽️ Sofrito, recaito, Puerto Rican and Caribbean cuisine, Vietnamese pho, Thai soups
Key:🤝 Grows well together❌ Keep apart☀️ Sun needs💧 Water🗺️ Hardiness zone
🤝 Companions (5)
Ginger's upright foliage provides the partial shade culantro prefers; both thrive in warm, humid conditions with consistently moist soil.
Turmeric provides light shade that prevents culantro from bolting in heat; both need similar moisture and thrive together in tropical herb gardens.
Culantro grows excellently in the moist, shaded understory beneath banana plants, which maintain the humid microclimate culantro needs.
🤝 shade-tolerant crops
NOT cilantro/coriander, a different plant with stronger flavor that thrives in heat and shade where cilantro bolts. Excellent understory herb in tropical food forests. Long harvest period.
🤝 tree understory
NOT cilantro/coriander, a different plant with stronger flavor that thrives in heat and shade where cilantro bolts. Excellent understory herb in tropical food forests. Long harvest period.
⚠️ Keep Apart (1)
⚠️ plants requiring full sun in same bed
Growth inhibition or competition
🛒 Buy Seeds & Plants
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Johnny's Selected Seeds
Botanical Interests
True Leaf Market
Burpee
Territorial Seed Company
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