Hibiscus

It sounded delicious.

Hibiscus is one of those things that,

yeah, I feel like I would definitely try it because an eaten mess, well, it's just, you know, some smashed up meringues.

But hibiscus, I would just bring it next level.

That's right.

Tell us about, you've written a book, White Hibiscus.

I'm keen to understand your motivation for doing so and I guess in looking very closely at your own life and putting pen to paper, finger to keyboard, did that change your view of your work, your life and potentially what you might do in the future? Yeah.

I think besides William's portrait, it's the thing I am most proud of, 100%.

So I'm like, well, if Red Bull is backing watermelon, it must be big.

I mean, I could see Hibiscus was making its thing into cocktails.

So I'm like, okay, so if you combine the two, we should have a winner.

And it's still like, it's a really delicious flavor.

... hibiscus, actually.

Mm-hmm.

Hibiscus is delightful.

What-

Do you like iced tea, Rachel? Like, sweet tea?

Adamisquia emarginata, beautiful scale-like trichomes, and then all members of the Capparaceae have a gynophore, just like all Passifloras, all members of the genus Passiflora, the passion flower, have an androgynophore.

And how all members of the genus, uh, Hibiscus, or I think, is it all members of the Malvoideae subfamily, have an androphor.

Andro, male, gyno, female, phor, meaning a stalk.

So in a gynophore, the ovary's on a stalk.

But then there's a species down here, so, and there's a lot of plants that do that, I guess, that have this amphitropical distribution, just like between, um, re- amphitropical distribution between Texas and Bolivia, Argentina.

You know, just like between California and Chile, there's a lot of amphiti- amphitropical disjunct genera, Manzalias, Phacelias, um, members of Boraginaceae, uh, in, in Texas and Bolivia there's a bunch.

You know, you've got Hibiscus striatus, which is Corpus Christi area, and Argentina, Uruguay.

Uh, and then that Cobra lineata.

And then there's Hawthorne, Hellborn, Hellbore, excuse me.

Heliotrope, Hibiscus, Hickory, Honeysuckle.

And again, these are all herbs for health and healing.

Hydrangea.