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RE: Photos From A Beautiful Day at Our Friends Garden in Panama
Hibiscus is an amazing plant. Eat the flower. Make tea from it. I make a "Viking's Blod" Dansk retail branded mead duplicate using dried hibiscus flowers. It is my wife's favorite. The flowers are a tonic, very good for your health, and they taste delicious! The mead recipe is 8oz of dried organic hibiscus flowers per 3 gallons of mead. It makes it a deep dark red color... the "blod" of the Viking. ;-)
Thanks for posting this. I had forgotten about hibiscus tea. I need to look more into it. Cook and eat the flower or just eat it raw? We have a plant that has a ton of flowers. One of our friends has a driveway that is lined with massive hibiscus plants of every color. I just planted a bunch of my friend's cuttings. I'm hoping they survive dry season...
I buy dried hibiscus flowers for my mead, but I want to simply grow my own. I'm not positive, but we should be able to eat the flower raw. Most people dry it though and use it for tea. It works the same as tea in the mead brew. The process draws out the deep red color and all the health positive compounds from the flower.
That's pretty cool. Definitely something I want to look into - hibiscus tea! :) Thanks for sharing!