Hibiscus
Hibiscus sabdariffa
Malvaceae (Mallow Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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TXA note from Ginger:
We all recognize the bright red hibiscus that we use to make tea, but did you know this is the calyx of the flower? It starts out small and hidden below the petals, and after pollination, the petals fall away, the calyx closes and wraps around the ovary which grows and holds the seeds. As the ovary grows, so does the calyx; remove from the stalk with your snips, pull out the ovary and save the seeds, and dry the calyx for tea.
Ginger Webb, Community Herbalist, Botanist, Teacher & Mentor
Ginger Webb has been practicing herbalism for nearly 30 years, as a community herbalist, clinical herbalist, herbal medicine maker, wild plant lover, botanist, and teacher. She has trained scores of people to be herbalists through her programs at Sacred Journey School of Herbalism.
Her mission is to keep alive the craft of herbalism through modeling the age-old wisdom of being in right relationship with the plants, and she teaches her students to be stewards of the Earth and the plants first, and to make medicine only when the plants wholeheartedly provide consent.
