A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.

An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.

any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea

An IMAP E-mail client for X-Windows written with GTK. Supports IMAP with and without SSL.

Althea is an IMAP email client for X that uses the GTK widget set. It was built with the IMAP protocol in mind in order to avoid many of the pitfalls experienced by POP clients that added IMAP support. Althea allows easy access to a nearly unlimited number of servers, and has a very small memory footprint. As of version

Althea officinalis Derived from marshmallow root; soothes inflammation and irritation, calms and softens skin.

Botanical root believed to have emollient and soothing capabilities for skin.