Musk Mallow Traditional Cache

Musk Mallows are beautiful pink flowers with a strong scent. One of my favorites. This is a Park and Grab, if you park on the lane, right next to the cache.

Malva moschata (musk mallow or musk-mallow^[1]) is a species of Malva native to Europe and southwestern Asia, from Spain north to the British Isles and Poland, and east to southern Russia and Turkey.^[2][3][4][5]

It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 80 cm tall, with hairy stems and foliage. The leaves are alternate, 2–8 cm long and 2–8 cm broad, palmately lobed with five to seven lobes; basal leaves on the lower stem are very shallowly lobed, those higher on the stems are deeply divided, with narrow, acuminate lobes. The flowers are produced in clusters in the leaf axils, each flower 3.2–5 cm diameter, with five bright pink petals with a truncated to notched apex; they have a distinctive musky odor.

The fruit is a disc-shaped schizocarp 3–6 mm diameter, containing 10–16 seeds, the seeds individually enclosed in a mericarp covered in whitish hairs.

Some fowers are white.

It occurs on dry, but fertile soils at altitudes from sea level up to 1,500 m. Natural hybrids with the closely related Malva alcea are occasionally found.^[5]

The flowers are usually pollinated by bees.

The cache is a camoed "small" bottle, that holds a rolled log with rubber band and two plastic bags. It is tied in. The tiny bag doesn't quite close around the log, so they are in a bigger snack bag, to help keep the log dry and to make it easier to get it out of the bottle without tweezers. There's no SWAG to start, but it will hold small stuff. Please put it back as you found it and BYOP, as there is none, until Ithaca Doodle comes around.