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Latin (Botanical) name: Hibiscus sabdariffa L.

Family name: Malvaceae

Common name: Hibiscus, Karkade, Karkadeih.

Origin: Egypt

Plant description:

MALVACEAE A. Juss.: Epicalyx small or absent. Epicalyx 5-12-fid. Fruit a capsule. HIBISCUS L.: Leaves undivided or palmate-lobed. Flowers pink or yellow with an epicalyx of 5-12 lobes or segments. Fruit a capsule. Leaves, at least some of them, palmate-lobed, flowers yellow with purple base. Calyx intensely crimson-coloured, in fruit fleshy. HIBISCUS SABDARIFFA L.: Erect, slightly branched herb. Lower leaves undivided, upper ones deeply cleft into 3-5 narrow lobes. Capsule ovoid, villous, seeds pilose. Annual, perennial.

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds), commercially annual plant.

Species List

Genus.

Botanical Family.

Product Photo. 

Alfalfa

Anise seed

Atrillal, Bishop's Weed

Basil

Beet

Caltrops, Tribulus

Celery

Chamomile, Matricaria

Clover, Egyptian

Coriander

Croton

Epazote

Fennel seed

Harmala, African rue

Hibiscus (Karkade)

Milk thistle

Nut grass

Plantain

Ploughmans spikenard

Saltbush

Thistle, Sonchus

Zilla

Zygophyllum

Chenopodiaceae.

Compositae.

Cruciferae.

Cyperaceae.

Euphorbiaceae.

Gramineae.

Labiatae.

Plantaginaceae.

Sterculiaceae.

Umbelliferae.

Zygophyllaceae.