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Malva alcea

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Home Perennial Malva alcea

Gardens, vineyards and waste places.

Family: Malvaceae
Height: 1.2 m / 4 ft
Sun, Semi-shade
Light, Medium and Heavy Soil
Moist

Plant Rating

Edible Uses: 5 of 5
Medicinal Uses: 1 of 5
Other Uses: 2 of 5

Native Habitat

Vervain mallow, Hollyhock Mallow Malva alcea native habitat is Gardens, vineyards and waste places.

Edible Uses

Leaves - raw or cooked. A mild pleasant flavour. The leaves are mucilaginous and fairly bland, this is a very good perennial substitute for lettuce in a salad, producing fresh leaves from spring until the middle of summer, or until the autumn from self-sown plants. Flowers - raw. A very decorative addition to the salad bowl, they have a mild flavour and a texture similar to the leaves. Seed - raw. Best used before it is fully mature, the seed has a pleasant nutty taste but it is rather small and fiddly to harvest.

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