German Cornflower Petals with their amazingly blue color make THE perfect topping for your latte/smoothie. Use them in tea blends, bath salts, gifts or bath bombs. Centaurea cyanus plants have been cultivated for centuries, and have picked up many common names along the way, including cornflowers, basket flower, bluebonnet, blue bottle, blue bow, blue cap, boutonniere flower, and hurt sickle. Cornflower is an herb. The dried flowers are used to make medicine. People take cornflower tea to treat fever, constipation, water retention, and chest congestion. They also take it as a tonic, bitter, and liver and gallbladder stimulant. The blue cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus) grow in cultivation in Germany. After the blooming of the cornflower blossoms, the whole plant is harvested and dried. The drying of the whole plant preserves the bright blue color of the cornflower blossoms. After drying, the stem is removed and only the tubular petals of the cornflower blossoms remain.Cornflower blossoms contain anthocyanins (main component: succinyl cyanine), flavanoids and bitter substances.Cornflower blossoms are used in natural healing as herbal tea or in ointments. For a cornflower blossom tea, 1-2 teaspoons of cornflower petals are poured with 250ml/8.5 fl oz of hot water and allowed to steep for 10 minutes. The cornflower blossom tea has a floral-bitter taste.Cornflower (plural cornflowers) is a small annual plant in the family Asteraceae, Centaurea cyanus, usually with bushy blue flowers which grows natively in European cornfields (i.e. wheatfields), a plant of the species Cichorium intybus. The hometown of the cornflowers in Europe, can beauty beauty, relax, help digestion, make the urine smooth. The cornflower is  a gentle natural skin cleaners ,and the water is available to maintain hair and moisturizing skin; help digestion, soothing rheumatism. Help the treatment of stomach pain, prevent gastritis, gastrointestinal discomfort, bronchitis. Pure, organic blue cornflower petals - Grown and harvested in Germany.