Penis peppers and vulva flowers: How Barcelona shops are trying to lure in tourists with 'rude seeds' that grow into erotically-shaped fruit

• Flower stalls along the city's Rambla have a new strategy to lure tourists
• 'Rude seeds' grow into fruit that resemble male and female genitalia
• Packets retail for €3 and €4 and can even be customised with phrases

By Katie Amey for MailOnline

Published: 09:49 EST, 1 July 2015 | Updated: 11:20 EST, 1 July 2015

The flower stalls along the city's Rambla have embraced eroticism in an effort to pull in tourists.

No longer allowed to sell souvenirs, the latest craze is for vendors to sell 'erotic seeds.'

The seeds grow into fruit that resemble male and female genitalia, such as peppers that resemble a penis, a 'vulva flower' or melons that grow into breasts. 

Flower stalls along Barcelona's La Ramblas have embraced 'rude seeds' in order to pull in tourists

'People stop a lot to look at them and take photos with them,' a stallholder told Catalan daily, La Vanguardia, reports The Local.

The packets, which retail for between €3 and €4, are even being customised by some stallholders, to include 'Barcelona' or 'La Rambla'.

Such rude seeds had mostly been sold on Costa Brava and other tourist resorts, but once one La Rambla flower stall began selling them about two years ago, others quickly followed suit.

Today, they are sought-after souvenirs. 

Stalls now sell packets of seeds for €3 to €4 that grow into erotically-shaped flowers, fruit and veg

'The erotic seeds are the best-selling,' Jessica Balastegui, who works on one of the Ramblas' flower stalls, told La Vanguardia.

'People coming here on stag and hen nights often buy them because they're funny,' said stallholder Rosa.

Rosa also explained that the peppers are actually deformed, which accounts for their phallic shape.

However, not everyone is in favour of selling these pervy fruits and some stallholders have flat-out refused, especially given that many schools and children frequent the area.