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Wild Greek Chamomile Dried Flowers Herbal Tea - Matricaria Recutita - 25g-1,980g
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Wild Greek Chamomile Dried Flowers Herbal Tea - Matricaria Recutita - 25g-1,980gChamomile,
Also called chamomili or χαμομήλι in Greek, is one of the most popular teas in all of Greece. However, this is an herb that is only enjoyed as a tea for either pleasure or medicinal purposes. It isn’t used in cooking in any way. While in Greece, if you order a “Greek tea” from a menu in a café, chances are pretty good that they will bring over a cup of chamomile tea. Many people in Greece refer to chamomile as either “chamomili” or simple as, “Greek tea.” Although there are many types of tea available in Greece today, chamomile remains one of the most common and the most traditional.
Common chamomile, the flowers are distributed in inflorescences-heads that are particularly similar to those of the daisy. Its name means apple that is down to the ground (hamo - apple). It is a herbaceous plant and lives one year (annuals). Aromatic and medicinal. It has a smooth stem and is multi-branched.It has slender leaves, bicolor or trifoliate, in oblong sections, the flowers of which are almost capillary form solitary heads, with white-billed flowers, formed around the central yellow stem of the flower, their conical protruding inflorescence disc, which is formed by very small tubular flowers. Chamomile has also been called the "plant doctor", because where it grows, its root system helps all the diseased plants that grow with it.
It is a plant that reaches a height of 0.05 to about 0.60 cm. It consists of multi-branched upright and smooth shoot. Flowering begins in April and lasts until June. Only the flowers are collected from the plant, when they open well and before their petals begin to fall. They are then dried in a shady or dark place and are usually packed airtight to preserve as much of the substances contained in the collected flowers as possible.
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