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Dagga, Wild White 'Alba' / 'Albiflora'

Dagga, Wild White 'Alba' / 'Albiflora'

Product number: 340910
Origin: South Africa
Latin: Lion's ear

Beautiful plant from South Africa. The very elegant, pure white flowers grow in clusters and emerge from a round bud cluster, with several clusters above each other. The plant is much loved not only for its elegance but also for its calming, soothing tea, which even has euphoric effects. This tea is made from the dried flowers and leaves and is drunk mixed with, for example, mint (for taste). In traditional medicine, the constituent leonurine is used against headaches, coughs, fever, asthma, hemorrhoids, and dysentery. You can find more medicinal properties online. The leaves can be smoked (alongside tobacco) as a mild substitute for Cannabis. Its narcotic properties are said to induce a calm sensation and euphoria. Fun for children: you can suck the deliciously sweet nectar from the base of the flowers! Its growth vigor is enormous: 1 m on poor soil and 2-3 m on fertile soil. Bees and butterflies love to visit the flowers, and the plants can overwinter frost-free.

Names:
Latin: Leonotis leonurus
Dutch: Dagga, Wilde Witte
Also known as: Milde Wiet, Duivelstabak, Leeuwenoor, Leeuwenstaart
English: Wild Dagga, Lion's Ear

Sowing method: Year-round in a warm place, preferably Feb-May. Sow in a mixture of coco peat and sand and do NOT cover the seeds themselves, they are light germinators. Lightly press the seeds, place them in a bright spot (not in direct sunlight) and never let them dry out. Germination usually occurs within 4 weeks. Overwinter plants frost-free.

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