Abutilon (Abutilon pictum)

Family: Malvaceae | Edibility: Edible (3/5)

Bloom Color: Yellow. Main Bloom Time: Early spring, Mid spring. Form: Spreading or horizontal, Upright or erect.

Edible Parts & Harvest Seasons

Edible Parts: Flowers

Harvest Seasons: Early Summer, Spring

Flavor & Culinary Uses

delicious sweet flavour. — Flowers - raw or cooked.; A delicious sweet flavour.; The flowers produce nectar all the time they are open so, assuming the plant is grown indoors and is not visited by pollinating insects, the sweetness increases the longer the flower is open.

Habitat & North American Range

Cultivated as an ornamental plant, it is not known in a truly wild situation. (Zone 8, Zone 9, Zone 10)