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Alcea rosea
Hollyhock
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Latin Name: Alcea rosea
Synonyms: Althaea rosea.
Common Name: Hollyhock
Family: Malvaceae(Click to Search)
Author: L.
Known Hazards: None known
Habitat: Not known in a truly wild situation.
Mature Height: 2.4
Mature Width: 0.6
Habit: Perennial
General Uses: A fibre obtained from the stems is used in papermaking[189]. The fibres are about 1.9mm long. The stems are harvested in late summer, the leaves are removed and the stems are steamed until the fibres can be removed. The fibres are cooked with lye for 2 hours and then ball milled for 3 hours or pounded with mallets. The paper is light tan in colour[189].
The flowers are an alternative ingredient of 'Quick Return' herbal compost activator[32]. This is a dried and powdered mixture of several herbs that can be added to a compost heap in order to speed up bacterial activity and thus shorten the time needed to make the compost[K].
The seed contains 12% of a drying oil[114, 240].
The red anthocyanin constituent of the flowers is used as a litmus[114].
A brown dye is obtained from the petals[168].
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