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Authors:Prof. Dr. med. Peter Altmeyer, Prof. Dr. med. Martina Bacharach-Buhles

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Last updated on: 29.10.2020

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Great cheese poplar; Malva sylvestries; Malva sylvestries L.; Rosspappel.

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The wild mallow, also known as Malva sylvestris or Great Cheese Poplar, is a plant from the genus Malva within the mallow family (Malvaceae). Its original area of distribution is in Asia and southern Europe. Meanwhile, the occurrence of Malva sylvestries extends over the whole of Southern and Central Europe to the North (Central Sweden and Southern Norway).

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The wild mallow grows as a mostly year-round green and herbaceous plant, which reaches growth heights of 30 to 125 cm. It has a spindle-shaped, fleshy and deep-reaching taproot, which anchors it firmly in the ground.

The leaves are between 2 and 4 cm long and 2 to 5 cm wide and have a distinct notch at the edge. Malva sylvestries flowers between May and September. The petals, which are pinkish-violet in colour, have fine longitudinal veins that give them their characteristic pattern.

Malva sylvestries is the parent plant of Malvae folium or -flos

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Last updated on: 29.10.2020

Authors: Prof. Dr. med. Peter AltmeyerProf. Dr. med. Martina Bacharach-Buhles