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Hibiscus sabdariffa species. What is hibiscus? Oftenâand erroneouslyâdescribed as a flower, the hibiscus we cook with is actually a collection of sepals (known as a calyx), the part of a flowering plant that protects the bud and supports the petal once in bloom. Before the plant flowers, the calyx resembles a pointed bud, holding the seed pod, but it unfurls as the flowers push through the pod. Where does hibiscus come from? Likely native to West Africa, East Africa, Southeast Asia, or Northeastern India, hibiscus goes by many names: Bissap in parts of West Africa; Karkade in North Africa (specifically, in Egypt, Sudan, and South Sudan); Rosela, Rosella, Grosella, and Sorrel in Indonesia, Australia, and across the Caribbean and Latin America; Mathipuli in Kerala; Krachiap in Thailand; Luo Shen Hua in China; and Flor de Jamaica in Mexico and across North America. ....
Going home to Jamaica for Christmas is what several Jamaicans in the diaspora look forward to each the year. This year, however, because of the coronavirus pandemic, such plans were put on hold for many, as they were forced to cancel trips to their homeland. One such person was Dr Rose-Marie Adamson-Lewis, who said that she and her family wanted to spend Christmas in Jamaica with family and friends this year, as always, but COVID-19 changed all that. “I am miserable to the point of tears,” she told The Gleaner from her home in Coconut Creek, Florida, United States. If not for COVID-19, she and her family would have been in Mandeville over the holidays enjoying the cool breeze and Jamaican food. ....
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