#malva moschata

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[lindamarieansonsnaps]

Malva

[theyoungwaldschrat]

Malva moschata - musk mallow

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

4 pieces photos by ©skondal 有時我不知道為什麼業餘攝影師的小品較易於觸動我的性靈和詩興 (我並不是說專業的不好 😅 😂) Sometimes I don't know why sketches by amateur photographers are more likely to touch my soul and poetry. (I'm not saying that professional ones are bad. lol 😆) 🙏 Thanks~*

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白花雪瑩瑩 草莽中自清 麝香味獨有 被窩裡忘情

─ poem - Missing that scent /想念的味道 by Chu Lan

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麝香錦葵 (麝香馬洛) /白麝香錦葵（mauve moschata 'alba'） 我喜愛它獨特的麝香味。麝香錦葵通常通過蜜蜂進行授粉。麝香錦葵的葉子和花朵常用於沙拉的添加物。其種子也可以食用。

I love its unique musky scent. White musk mallow (Malva moschata) flowers are usually pollinated by bees. Leaves and flowers of musk mallow are common additions to "wild" salads. The seeds are also edible.

《花語》“妖精的起司”，它的另一個花語是“風味”。凡是受到錦葵花祝福而生的人，會擁有一種與眾不同且迷人的氣質。"Fairy's cheese", its other flowery language is "flavor". Anyone born with the blessing of musk mallow flowers will have a unique and charming temperament.

史上第一支名為白麝香的香水，是The Body Shop美體小舖的白麝香香水（White Musk），在80年代調香師Bill Hollingshead利用錦葵調配出草本麝香，不但得到諾貝爾化學獎，更開啟植物麝香的的香氛世界。從1981年到現在2023年，歷經了42年，The Body Shop將白麝香香水升級為白麝香全素系列。白麝香全素系列從包裝到成分皆注入環保理念，共有三大升級之處：取得英國純素協會認證的全素成分；極簡100%環保包裝，瓶身使用42%的再生玻璃製作，並採用100%可回收材質，搭配可拆卸便於回收的噴頭 ，以及減少不必要的包裝，減輕環境負擔。

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味道/Scent

singer : 辛曉琪 Winnie Hsin 作詞 姚謙 (Yao Qian) 作曲 黃國倫 (Huang Quo)

Lyrics :

今天晚上的星星很少　不知道它們跑那去了 赤裸裸的天空星星多寂寥 我以為傷心可以很少　我以為我能過得很好 誰知道一想你　思念苦無藥　無處可逃

想念你的笑　 想念你的外套 想念你白色襪子　 和你身上的味道 我想念的的吻　和手指淡淡煙草味道　記憶中曾被愛的味道

今天晚上的心事很少　不知道這樣算　好不好 赤裸裸的寂寞朝著心頭繞

[thewolfnessphotography]

Pink Mallow

[solbacka]

Friday’s child can feel whatever they want to.

[wiersm]

Malva seed head Our garden, November 2015

(Thank you @ericrebaser for tagging me for the black & white photo challenge. This is 3/7. I’m not tagging anyone, but encourage everyone to make/keep making great monochrome images!)

[regnum-plantae]

Malva moschata, Malvaceae

Looking at the pale pink blossoms of musk mallow it’s easy to see it is related to some other showier and commercially more important plants, like Hibiscus, cotton, and okra, however, together with the similar M. alcea and Alcea species, it is one of the largest flowered and hardiest species of the Malvaceae you will encounter in cooler temperate areas where the the tropical and sub-tropical ones don’t do too well.

Like many other species of Malva it is quite resourceful, although maybe not as much as M. sylvestris, ubiquitous in Italy and still for me to find here in Scotland. The flowers, seeds and young leaves are edible raw, they are mild in flavour and can replace lettuce in a salad, while the older ones are better cooked. All these parts are quite mucilaginous when fresh (simply put, they are viscid if poulticed or cooked, good as laxative and diuretic for this reason) and have anti-inflammatory properties, both applied externally and internally. When dried, flowers and leaves can also be used to make an herbal tea to soothe cough and sore throat. 

It is a good plant for an informal wildlife-friendly garden, bees and bumblebees visit it mostly for its nectar (you can see bumblebees still collecting it from the open calyx when the flower has already closed up for the night in the late afternoon) while hoverflies use the pollen. It can grow quite tall and self-sows freely so consider where to place it, it can do well and looks fantastic in a container too.