Viola Tricolor - Beautiful and Edible - Oshawa - Home, garden, Oshawa - 1983600

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Viola Tricolor - Beautiful and Edible - Home, garden

Ref. number: 1983600 Updated: 11-06-2015 01:04

Price: 40 CAD $

Offering: Home, garden in Canada, Oshawa

Viola Tricolor - Beautiful and Edible price includes express shipping 50 plants 1" to 3" high Viola Tricolor, know as Heartseanse is a common European flower which grows as an annual. After being introduced to North America it became know as Johnny Jump Up These wild pansies are small plants which like to creep and move though out their habit. They will reach a height of 15 cm forming flowers about 1.5 cm in diameter. They enjoy growing in acid to neutral soils with partial shade. Flowers from April to September with purple, blue, yellow and white colours. Heartsease are hermaphrodite and self-fertilize with the help of bees. Heartsease as its name implies, has a long history with herbalism. It has been recommended, among other uses, for epilepsy, asthma, skin disease and eczema. Viola Tricolor has a history in folk medicine of helping respiratory problems such as bronchitis, asthma, and cold symptoms. With its expectorant properties, it has been used in the treatment of chest complaints in bronchitis and whooping cough. Chemicals: Viola Tricolor is on of many Viola plant species containing cyclotides. These small peptides have proven to be useful in drug development due to their size and structure giving rise to high stability. Many cyclotides, found in Viola tricolor are cytotoxic. This feature means that it could be used to treat cancers. The plant, especially the flowers, contain antioxidants and are edible. Plants contain aglycones, apigenin, chrysoeriol, isorhamnetin, kaempferol, luteolin, querctin and rutin. The fresh herb ( Viola declinata and V. tricolor, ) contains approx : saponins (4.40%) mucilages (10.26%) total carotenoids (8.45 mg/100g veg. product, expressed in B-carotene)

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