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ABSTRACT
Vegetative growth patterns of sixteen accessions of West African okra (Abelmoschus caillei) were investigated for a period of 115days. The morpho-agronomic characters determined include; days from sowing to germination, growth habit, stem type, branching form, stem base diameter, plant height at maturity, stem and leaf colour, leaf shape, internode length and leaf pubescence. The emergence of seedlings to flower bud production ranged between 95-115 days. Results also showed high degree of variability among the accessions. Growth habit varied from determinate to indeterminate, stem type, procumbent to erect, stem and leaf pigmentations were green to red/purple and green to yellow –green respectively. Main stem is medium to strongly branch with 55% of the accession bearing long internodes. Based on these results, two distinct morphologically diversed types are suggested – determinate, procumbent, and medium branched with short internodes and indeterminate, erect strongly branched with long internode accessions from the study.
