Common Borage
Formats
Culinary, medicinal and ornamental plant. Ideal for pots, in kitchen and herb gardens. The whole plant is used from its stems to its leaves. Used in soups, they can be added to salads, scrambled eggs, omelettes. Herbal tea and juices are also made. The plant has diuretic, analgesic, anti-stress, demulcent properties. It is useful as well in case of protaste inflammation. It is used as herbal tea and plaster.
Annual plant of 60-100cm. The stems and leaves are dark-green, hairy and oval. It has beautiful blue-purple, star-shaped, clustered flowers.
Prefers sandy, slightly clay soils under a Mediterranean climate. The Common Borage is coming originally from Aleppo but now naturalized in most parts of Europe.
Direct sowing in Spring and Autumn.
Use
Culinary, Herbs garden, Wild garden, Medicinal, Honey producing plant, Restoration
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Flowering
| Flower colour | Blue |
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| Flowering period | April, May, June, July, August, Spring, Summer |
Botanical information
| Common name | BORAGO OFFICINALIS - Common Borage |
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| Life cycle | Annual |
When to plant?
| Sowing period | March, April, May, October, November, Spring, Autumn |
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| Average germination (%) | 70 |
| Seeds per gram | 50 |
Where to plant?
| Type of use | Culinary, Herbs garden, Wild garden, Medicinal, Honey producing plant, Restoration |
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| Soil pH | No preference |
| Soil type | Clay, Sand |
| Soil moisture | Moist |
| Hardiness | No drought resistant, Hardy (tolerates temperatures down to -15ºC) |
| Climate zone | Mediterranean |
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