Mullein Herb Tea Organic 50g

Certified Organic Mullein Herb (Verbascum thapsus) — cut and sieved dried leaf from certified organic growing regions in Croatia and Bulgaria. Mullein is one of the most visually striking plants in the European botanical landscape — a tall biennial that in its first year produces a ground-level rosette of exceptionally large, densely felted, soft grey-green leaves, and in its second year sends up a towering flower spike reaching one to two metres in height, densely packed with small yellow flowers. This woolly, velvety texture of the leaf — which gives the plant its common names Velvet Plant and Flannel Leaf — is caused by a covering of fine, star-shaped hairs across the leaf surface. The plant grows naturally across Europe, Asia, and North America in open, disturbed soils and has been a fixture of European botanical and culinary tradition for well over two thousand years.

The dried organic leaf has a mild, gently earthy flavour with a subtle sweetness — one of the softest and most approachable botanicals in the tea blending range. It is not strongly flavoured, bitter, or aromatic, which makes it a neutral, versatile supporting ingredient in herbal tea blends across a wide variety of applications. The characteristic velvety texture of the fresh leaf largely disappears once dried and cut — the 3–8mm cut and sieved format integrates cleanly into loose leaf and pyramid tea bag formulations. Mullein is one of the most widely recognised botanical herbs by Australian consumers in the herbal tea retail category, which makes it a well-understood ingredient for product labelling and marketing. Certified Organic (SCX No. 24041). Freeze-treated. This product is sold as a food only.