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Hibiscus cannabinus

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Home Perennial Hibiscus cannabinus

Not known in the wild.

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Family: Malvaceae
Height: 1.8 m / 6 ft
Sun
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 4 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 2 of 5
Other Uses: 3 of 5

Native Habitat

Kenaf, Brown Indianhemp Hibiscus cannabinus native habitat is Not known in the wild.

Edible Uses

Young leaves - cooked. Used as a potherb or added to soups. The leaves have an acid flavour like sorrel. Seed - roasted or ground into a flour and made into a kind of cake. Root - it is edible but very fibrousy. Mucilaginous, without very much flavour. An edible oil is obtained from the seed. The yield varies from 2 - 10 tonnes per hectare (or is it per acre?).

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