Malva alcea
Rose Mallow ( Malva alcea )
The Rose Mallow ( Malva alcea ), also rose mallow, mallow called Spitzblättrige, Sigmar herb or victory Mars root, is a plant that belongs to the genus of the mallow ( Malva ) in the mallow family ( Malvaceae ).
Description
Vegetative characteristics
The Rose Mallow grows as a deciduous, perennial herbaceous plant that reaches the heights of growth from 50 to 125 cm. The always erect stems is in the upper area with adjoining simple hairs and stellate hairs (star hair branched) covers.
The alternate on the stem arranged leaves are stalked. The leaf blades of upper leaves are deeply palmately divided into three to seven sections that can be coarse blunt serrated or further divided. The leaf blades of the lower leaves are round to kidney-shaped and hardly divided. The leaves are covered with stellate hairs.
Generative features
The Rose Mallow blooms from June until autumn. The lower flowers are individually in the axils of foliage leaves, the upper are usually racemose to doldig heaped. The hermaphrodite, radial symmetry, five petals have a diameter 4-7 cm. The three green outer sepals are downy covered with stellate hairs, and ovoid shaped with a width of usually 3 to 4 mm to broad - lanceolate. At their base they widen. The five broad, rounded triangular green sepals are still grown to flowering time in half and covered with felt-like stellate hairs. Before, they form the envelope of the characteristic winged bud. The five deep ausgerandeten petals are pink to light violet-purple, rarely white, and 20 to 35 mm long. The many stamens are - typical of all mallows - fused into an approximately 1 cm long, surrounding the plunger tube, the Columna.
The partial fruits are bare and laterally querrunzelig.
Differences to similar types
The Rose Mallow is quite similar to the Musk Mallow. Outside of the above- mentioned broad sepals, the Rose Mallow has (mostly) three free-standing, narrow - ovate outer calyx leaves. The Musk Mallow these are quite narrow and linear. Another distinguishing feature is the structure of the upper stem leaves. In the Musk Mallow, the sections are much more organized and so that the leaves are almost straight sections, a total of filigree. The flowers of Rose Mallow are odorless, while those of Musk Mallow, weakly fragrant.
Occurrence
The Rose Mallow originates probably from the eastern Mediterranean. But you probably came from very early time with the people in Central Europe ( archaeophyte ). There she comes now on wasteland ( roadsides, embankments, dams ), mostly in Proximity ago. It requires calcareous and nitrogen- rich soil.
The Rose Mallow is highly endangered in the northern Alps and the northern Alpine foreland, in the territory of the Bohemian Massif and the Pannonian area.
System
The first publication of Malva alcea was in 1753 by Linnaeus in Species Plantarum, 2, p 689 are synonyms for alcea Malva L.: Malva alcea var fastigiata ( Cav. ) K.Koch, Malva bismalva Bernh. ex Lej. , Malva fastigiata Cav ..
Use
Your grades are used as an ornamental plant.
Like other mallow species also, the Rose Mallow has been used in folk medicine earlier because of their mucilage content. The medical effects have been investigated.
The leaves are eaten raw or cooked and have a good, mild flavor. The mucilaginous leaves are a good substitute or complement to other leaf salads; they can be of selbstgesäten harvest crops from spring to mid-summer and autumn. The flowers are eaten raw and are in any salad a beautiful decoration, while they have a mild flavor and a texture similar to the foliage leaves. The seeds are eaten raw, especially when they are fully ripe they have a pleasant nutty flavor, but since they are very small harvest is fiddly.
From the fibers of the stem cables can be produced. From different parts of plants, a cream-colored, yellow and green dye can be extracted. The seeds contain 15 % oil.