Chinese Lantern (Abutilon x hybridum)

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

Bloom Color: Orange, Purple, Red, Salmon, White, Yellow. Main Bloom Time: Early summer, Early fall, Early spring, Early winter, Late summer, Late fall, Late spring, Late winter, Mid summer, Mid fall, Mid spring, Mid winter. 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, they are excellent on their own or as part of a mixed salad. — Flowers - raw or cooked.; A delicious sweet flavour, they are excellent on their own or as part of a mixed salad.; 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

Not known in the wild. (Zone 9)