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BORAGE

BORAGE. FIDLOQQOM. BY JOSEPH MERCIECA. Borage is a herb. It has blue or purple  star shaped flowers and dark green, hairy leaves. The scientific name for Borage. Borage is well visited by bees and other nectar sucking insects.

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BORAGE

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  1. BORAGE FIDLOQQOM BY JOSEPH MERCIECA

  2. Borage is a herb. • It has blue or purple  star shaped flowers and dark green, hairy leaves. The scientific name for Borage

  3. Borage is well visited by bees and other nectar sucking insects.

  4. This plant grows in sunny places in people’s gardens and in vegetable gardens. • The flower of this plant is also described as a "beauty spot".

  5. The whole borage plant has tiny hairs all over its stems, leaves and buds. • The flowers do not have these hairs. • All these little hairs give this plant a rough feeling.

  6. The flowers on this plant come out in late autumn and flower until winter or early spring.

  7. These plants are also edible. • You can eat the flowers and the leaves.

  8. Did you know that you can use borage in natural things like; Cosmetics, culinary, and also medicinal?

  9. In our project we have used this plant in the sea-beet and borage cake and in the ftira.

  10. Borage plants will die after the season but the new seeds that have dropped will grow up and you will have new borage plants the next year.

  11. Borage can also be used as a sweet smelling fragrance, or you can chop the flowers or leaves up for flavouring.

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