Lettuce 'Optima' Butter

Lactuca Sativa

With velvety soft, lightly textured, dark green leaves that blanch the exceptionally tender, sweet inner head, Optima is a melt in your mouth butterhead. This surprisingly uniform Spring workhorse is late to bolt even into the heat of early Summer. In the field Optima was very resistant to downy mildew, bottom rot, and tip-burn in our disease trials while post harvest, she held up well to washing and acidic dressing. A chef's favourite.

Released by French seedhouse and breeder Vilmorin in 1995. The flavour, colour and texture combined with uniformity in maturity and denseness of the heads make this worthy of market growers space .

We are in our 3rd season of seed production refining ‘Optima’ for tight, blanched heart, uniformity of head size and days to maturity, resilience to bolting through Spring temperature extremes experience in Southern Victoria in the early summer, resistance to bottom rot through wet, humid conditions, resistance to tip burn and resistance to downy mildew.

Certified Demeter Biodynamic and Certified Organic

SEED COUNT: 250, 1000, 5000 approx.
Germination: Lot#12256 99% APR 2025

PLEASE NOTE: We do not authorize the repackaging of our seed without written permission