Southern Exposure Seed exchange has all the okra talked about here and some nice descriptions. Great place for buying seeds. Really nice selection of heirloom tomatoes and generous seed count on almost everything.
http://www.southernexposure.com/vege...ra-c-3_36.html
I read the history of okra a few years ago. Roasted Okra seeds were used to replace coffee in the Civil War when the North had all the Southern ports under blockade. Some people still mix coffee beans and okra even today.
There was also a research report put out by a major university saying that since Okra can be grown almost anywhere it would easily solve world hunger as the mature seeds are very similar to soybeans nutrition wise.
