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As a rule, for the preparation of medicines from herbs, plants are harvested in the wild, and not in summer cottages, where we grow and groom their cultivated descendants. But there are no rules in life that do not have pleasant exceptions. So among the numerous representatives of the plant with the name "Malva" there is "Malva pink" ("Marsh pink", "Stock-rose") with dark burgundy flowers, sometimes reaching black, which are successfully used for medicinal purposes
Description
Recently, mallows, including stock roses, have begun to gain popularity again as ornamental plants in Russian gardens. Unlike its perennial wild progenitor, the cultivated stock rose is a two or three year old plant.
The powerful taproot of the stock rose supports an equally powerful straight stem, often towering over one and a half meter country or village hedges. After all, its height can reach two meters. The stalk of the mallow is strongly pubescent and, as a rule, is branched at its very base.
Large, rough-hairy leaves sit on a stem on long petioles. The shape of the leaves is five to seven lobed, with veins protruding on the leaf surface.
Large flowers are simple and double with a very rich palette: white, yellow, pink, red, maroon, black-purple. Flowers are collected in racemose inflorescences.
Only dark burgundy and black-purple flowers have medicinal properties. Moreover, this applies only to tall plants. Currently bred dwarf plant varieties, even with flowers of the same dark shades, are not suitable for medicinal purposes.
Fruits are large serums that break down into numerous dry achenes.
Growing
Stock rose is a very whimsical plant. If planted on dry or too wet, poor or heavy soils, it will refuse to grow, develop, or simply die. But on medium-fertile and fertile soils, it will not sabotage. In addition, the stock-rose loves sunny places, and the soil moisture is medium.
Being a native of the warm Balkan Peninsula, the stock-rose does not have high winter hardiness, and therefore, for the winter, one-year-old plants require shelter with autumn fallen leaves.
The rose stock is propagated by seeds. If you have collected seeds from self-grown plants, then such seeds, oddly enough, possess a higher germination rate after two years of storage. Shop seeds can be sown immediately.
Seeds sown in open ground in June will delight with their elegant inflorescences only next summer. If you sow them in a greenhouse at the end of April, then by the end of summer you can admire the flowering.
If you are going to grow a stock rose for medicinal purposes, then the appearance of plants with flowers of other shades should be ruthlessly destroyed before their flowers open in order to prevent over-pollination and loss of quality and purity of the variety.
Tall plants, in spite of their strong stem, sometimes require a garter to the supports, which protects them from injury in strong winds.
Use in the garden
Large bell-shaped stock-rose flowers, like the lights of a New Year tree, climb a strong stem from the bottom up from June to mid-September.
Traditionally, the stock rose grows along the village hedges, often rushing into neutral territory behind them. It is "draped" by the unsightly walls of houses and outbuildings, compost heaps. The stock-rose looks spectacular in the borders and in the background of mixborders. It retains its beauty for a long time when cut.
Healing action
Stock-rose has anti-inflammatory, emollient and astringent effects, which makes it a good helper in diseases of the respiratory and digestive system.
Collection and procurement
Fully blossoming flowers, which have not yet been touched by the withering hand, are harvested in the morning, when the sun has already licked off the dew drops. Flowers are dried in the usual way https://www.asienda.ru/lekarstvennye-rasteniya/sushim-lekarstvennye-travy/. With artificial drying, the temperature should not exceed 40 degrees.
Less commonly, roots are used, which are dug up from plants of the first year in late autumn, and from plants of the second year - in early spring.
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