Seed Information

Common Name: SNAPDRAGON TALL - MIXED COLORS
Scientific Name: Antirrhinum majus

3g

R50.00

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Description

• Annual
• Snapdragons are mostly short-lived perennial plants with simple lance-shaped leaves.
• The flowers resemble the face of a dragon that opens and closes its mouth when laterally squeezed, hence the name Snapdragon.
• They came in incredible combinations of colours and is a good cut flower.
• It is not frost tender and prefers full sun and well-drained soil with a PH near neutral.
• Cutting back spent flower stalks will tend to encourage continued blooming.

Culinary Uses

• The flowers are edible and can be added to green salad rather than be infused.
• Although it has a bitter taste it is a great source of Vitamins.

Parts Used

• The above part is harvested in the summer when in flower and is dried for later use.

Medicinal Uses. It is said that

• The leaves and flowers are antiphlogistic, bitter, resolvent and stimulant.
• They can be used in poultices on skin tumours and ulcers.
• It is effective in the treatment of all kinds of inflammation and is also used on haemorrhoids.

Other Uses

• A green dye has also been extracted from the flowers.

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