Wax Mallow
Malvaviscus Drummondii
Malvaceae (Mallow Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
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TXA note from Ginger:
Known locally as Wax Mallow or Turk's Cap, this evergreen mallow forms patches and provides tasty little red flowers and fruits for the forager. As an herbalist, I like to harvest leaves and dry them for overnight infusions, drawing from them lots of minerals and phytochemicals. All plant parts are to varying degrees demulcent.
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.
