№12
Rosaceae.
Pleasant, slightly medicated scent. The leaves smell like almonds and the flowers much sweeter, not dissimilar to honey and hay.
Bitter taste similar to quinine.
A tall perennial to 1.2m, sometimes forming dense stands. White to cream coloured flowers blossom from June to September.
Explore the locally foraged plants that we use to make The Botanist gin.
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