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Sweet violet – pink flowering

$6.50

An evergreen PERENNIAL gowing to 10cm with heart-shaped leaves and pretty pink flowers.

Prefers well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade.

Young leaves and flowers are edible and the plant has historic medicinal use.

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Description

Leaves have a very mild flavour, best used young. May thicken soups in a similar way as okra.

Flowers are used to decorate salads and desserts with a sweet flavour and delicate perfume

As a folk medicine, sweet violet is used in the treatment of cancer and whooping cough, headaches, migraines. Coughs, lung conditions etc. Externally for mouth and throat infections.