Everlasting Flower | Yellow Chaste Weed | Organic

Description

Everlasting flower is the dried flower of Helichrysum italicum, the plant also known as immortelle, sold here organic. The original page unpacks the scientific name: a contraction of two Greek words, helios, meaning “sun”, and chrysos, meaning “gold” — the golden sun of Italy, as the page puts it, for a flower widespread across the Mediterranean.

The everlasting flower plant

The plant behind everlasting flower is a hardy shrub of sunbaked Mediterranean landscapes, clinging to barren hills and resisting drought and high temperatures inhospitable to less robust plants. It carries slim leaves and tiny yellow flowers, and the page calls the plant a key constituent of the Mediterranean scentscape — a glorious and fragile yellow flower, heavily scented.

The page also records the flower’s place in history: vaunted throughout history for its use in beauty, and for adorning the crowns of gods — woven, in the page’s telling, into the laurel worn by the mighty Apollo. That history is recorded here as the page states it, as background to the flower’s long-standing place in Mediterranean tradition rather than as a use claim for this listing.

Keeping and choosing everlasting flower

As a dried flower, the botanical is kept as other dried flowers are kept: sealed, cool and dry, away from moisture and strong light, so the tiny yellow flowers keep their scent between uses. The listing’s precaution is kept with the product: consult a qualified healthcare practitioner before using herbal products, particularly if pregnant, nursing or taking medication, and the page presents its information for educational purposes.

Choose from 2, 4, 6 and 8 ounce sizes. The smaller sizes suit a first purchase; the larger sizes suit keeping the flower on hand in quantity. Plainly stated: dried yellow flowers of Helichrysum italicum, the Mediterranean immortelle — heavily scented, sun-gold flowers in four sizes.

Pairs well with: Lavender Flower · White Lotus