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Fame Flower (Talinum paniculatum), potted plant, organic
$8.50
Family: Purslane (Portulaccaceae)
Hardy to Zones 7 to 11, otherwise grown as an annual or a pretty potted plant.
(Tu-ren-shen, Jewels of Opar) Native to the central and southern US and Central America—cultivated in China. The hot pink flowers of this succulent, mound-forming ground cover give way to rounded seedpods of bright cinnabar red. Traditional usage (TCM): tonifies the digestion, moistens the lungs and promotes breast milk. This drought resistant plant prefers full sun, rooting into poor soils, sand or gravel. Space plants 1 foot apart.
Potted plant, Certified Organically Grown
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Caitlin –
Are the berries and flowers edible too, or just the leaves? How do you use it to promote breast milk?
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Richo Cech –
Hi Caitlyn, The flowers and seed pods of Fame Flower are very stemmy–nobody would want to eat them I don’t think. The leaves are fat, cooling and inviting looking. Herbalists give them fresh to mothers to promote breast milk. Richo
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Michelle Smith –
I have been looking for the name of this plant for ages. Do you have more information on how to use it medicinally?
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Admin Richo Cech –
Chinese herb Tu-ren-shen used in TCM to tonify the digestion and promote breast milk. Soothing mucilage cools and heals burns and other skin maladies.
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Jennifer –
I’ve always known it to be called Jewel of Opar. Thank goodness for taxonomic names!
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Richo Cech –
You’re right, I’d forgotten that, Jewels of Opar is a better common name. I put it in the monograph. thank you! richo
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