#Althaea cannabina

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A - Althaea cannabina L. - Altea canapina (Malvaceae)

[kevinscottgardens]

21 au 27 juin 2021

Monday started with the driveway being repaired, so no vehicles all day. I potted up the other Arbutus into a pot by the front door.

Tuesday I started making little paths through the meadow with a hoe. It should make it look like little animals are running through it. It will also give me access to the middle of the beds.

I pruned the rampant Bougainvillea on the back patio that was blocking the shudders from opening. I picked up a hire car and went looking for bedside tables; unfortunately, I didn’t find any I liked. It was odd being in a shopping mall for the first time in two years. I washed sheets, caught up on my blog and cleaned the floor preparing for Susie and Stephan.

The garden is looking fantastic in the late summer evening light.

Susie arrived Wednesday. We headed into town and enjoyed a nice lunch at a Lebanese place right on the water. Thursday we went for a hike. Friday she had her Covid test to return to the UK. Unfortunately it came back with her maiden name. So Saturday morning we went to Nice Cote d’Azure Airport so she could get another one.

Stephane and Lady arrived around 16.30. Susie and I were just heading back from Antibes where we had dropped off the hire car then lunched. I was surprised by a nice birthday carrot cake provided by the restaurant, Merry Mary, who overheard it was my birthday.

That evening we all walked up to Biot. We explored a bit then made our way to Les Arcades for my birthday dinner. It is located in the middle of the village, and the tables take up most of the square. It was a very nice evening and good food.

Sunday was a quiet day. We looked into going into Italy to see Susie’s daughter who is moored in Ventimiglia. Between Covid regulations and the boss not disembarking until much later than scheduled, that didn’t happen. Instead, we enjoyed a Lebanese late lunch and a nice walk around Antibes.

Cours de français hebdomadaire

bouturage à bois sec - hardwood cuttings

boutures de racines - root cuttings

boutures de résineux - softwood cuttings

filet d'ombrage - shade netting

humidité - humidity

propagation - propagation

sec - dry

semer des graines - to sow seeds

sol acide - acidic soil

sol calcaire - calcareous soil

Plant of the week

Malvaceae Althaea cannabina L.

common name(s) - hemp-leaved hollyhock, hemp-leaved marshmallow, palm-leaf marsh mallow synonym(s) - Althaea kotschyi Boiss.; Althaea narbonensis Jacq.; Althaea narbonnensis Pourr. ex Cav. conservation rating - none native to - Mediterranean to Pakistan location - Domaine de l’Orangerie leaves - hairy, lobed leaves, up to 400mm long flowers - cup-shaped, 30mm to 50mm across; appear singly or in clusters on long stalks from the leaf axils and are lavender-pink with dark pink-purple anthers, from midsummer to early autumn fruit - somewhat longer than calyx and not concealed, 7mm across; mericarps 12–16, brown, unwinged, reniform, striate with ribs radiating from rugose central area, back herringbone-veined, glabrous habit - erect, woody-based herbaceous perennial with strong, branched stems, up to 2m high habitat - grow at an altitude of 0–800 m above sea level; prefer coastal thickets, forest edges, meadows, weedy places, roads, wasteland, pastures and parks, especially with rocky and calcareous soils pests - flee beetles disease - hollyhock rust hardiness - to <-20ºC (H7) soil - wide range of situations; rarely needs staking; for best results grow in fertile, moist and well-drained soil sun - sheltered, full sun to part shade propagation - seed, division pruning - none required; stems can be cut to the ground once flowering is over if desired nomenclature - Malvaceae - soft, malva, the name in Pliny, cognate via old English, mealwe, with mallow; Althaea - healer (Greek), a name used by Theophrastus; cannabina - cannabis-like, leaves of hemp agrimony, wild hemp (Dioscorides)

References :

Gledhill, David, (2008) “The Names of Plants”, fourth edition; Cambridge University Press; ISBN: 978-0-52168-553-5

IUCN [online] http://www.iucnredlist.org/search [8 Jul 21]

Pépinière Lepage [online] https://www.lepage-vivaces.com/detail-article.php?ID_ARTICLE=7920 [8 Jul 21]

Plants of the World [online] http://plantsoftheworldonline.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:558787-1 [8 Jul 21]

Royal Horticultural Society [online] https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/1023/Althaea-cannabina/Details [8 Jul 21]

Wikipedia [online] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althaea_cannabina [8 Jul 21]

World Flora Online [online] http://www.worldfloraonline.org/taxon/wfo-0000528921 [8 Jul 21]

I forgot about the Covid update. Thankfully, new daily infections are still dropping.

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Hemp-Leaved Hollyhock

Althaea cannabina 

Althaea translates into heal or cure, while cannabina means hemp.

Family: Malvaceae (Mallow Family)

Fun Fact: “In this region, it is also used to prepare herby cheese as preservative and aroma source.” (Source)

Habitat: They are endemic to grasslands of southern Europe and Western Asia. 

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6.11.20 - Althaea cannabina (altea canapina) . . #althaeacannabina #alteacanapina #flower #flowers #autumn #autumncolors #angrybeargram (presso Salse Di Nirano) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHS3ldLAYGp/?igshid=54ss1pwlp37e

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Flowers at the Escales Reservoir (Aragon)

Part 1 - Aulet

1 Arabian pea (Bituminaria bituminosa)

2 Sweet pea (Lathyrus sp.)

3 Spiny starwort (Pallenis spinosa)

4 Hemp-leaved hollycock (Althaea cannabina)

5 Old man´s beard (Clematis vitalba)

6 Mountain saffron (Colchicum montanum syn. Merendera montana)

7 Restharrow (Ononis sp.)

8 Black knapweed (Centaurea nigra)

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Althaea cannabina - high resolution image from old book.

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Althaea cannabina L. by elisabetta2005

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Cáñamo silvestre by Antonio Palomas

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fiori della campagna Nugolese (Collesalvetti) by Valentina Via Flickr: althaea cannabina

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Althaea cannabina by David GENOUD Via Flickr: 14/08/12 - Arzens - Bellevue - (France - 11)