Famine Foods Plants that are not normally considered as crops are consumed in times of famine

Malva sylvestris

Uses

Tunisia: as for Malva parviflora.
Add: Israel. Leaves eaten, in Jerusalem, during a 1948 military blockade.

Additional Information

Name Authority:: L.
Misc:: Tunisia: as for Malva parviflora q.v.

Plant Classification Group:

Malvaceae

Plant Locations:

Africa
- Tunisia

Plant References:

BOUQUET
DAFNI
https://www.jweekly.com/2018/04/06/cooking-common-weed-no-not-kind-sustained-israel-48/

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