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malva
mallow
The young leaves are edible, and in Emilia-Roma the flowers are harvested along with chamomile and infused in alcohol and sugar to make the elisir di camomilla e malva, an anti-inflammatory digestivo.
Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls
Image by Luis Fernández García, Creative Commons License