TURKEYTAIL
Mushrooms are part of the traditional pharmacopoeias of many Asian countries. TRAMETES VERSICOLOR = CORIOLUS VERSICOLOR, POLYPORACEAE, TURKEYTAIL, is a fungus used in traditional Chinese medicine for several thousand years,…
LINDEN TREE LIME TREE
The LINDEN TREE or LIME TREE (TILIACEAE) are present in all the temperate regions of the world. Tilia cordata flowers These are often planted on village squares and near homes…
THYME
THYMES, LABIATEAE=LAMIACEAE, are small bushy plants, erect (common thyme) or more spreading and creeping (wild thyme), typical of the Mediterranean region where they grow naturally. Common Thyme, THYMUS VULGARIS, is…
TEA TREE
The TEA TREE, MELALEUCA ALTERNIFOLIA, MYRTACEAE is endemic to areas of eastern Australia (north of New South Wales to Queensland).It has been introduced in countries with a similar climate (USA,…
TAMARIND
Indigenous to Africa, the TAMARIND TREE,TAMARINDUS INDICA, CAESALPINIACEAE, is found in the wild in dry savannahs; it was introduced a long time ago in India then dispersed by the Arabs…
TAMANU TEMANU
Tropical-equatorial plants, CLUSIASEAE are essentially trees or shrubs, sometimes epiphytes, "strangling" their support and developing aerial roots (genus Clusia). Most often large trees in the rainforest, swampy coasts or along…
TOBACCO
NICOTIANA TABACUM and NICOTIANA RUSTICA, SOLANACEAE, originate from the "new world", ie tropical and subtropical zones of North and South America. The use of tobacco leaves by the Amerindians was…
BLACK ELDERBERRY
The BLACK ELDERBERRY, SAMBUCUS NIGRA, CAPRIFOLIACEAE is a shrub very widespread in Europe (it tolerates the cold like the heat, the humidity like the drought), it can reach 4 to…
STEVIA
STEVIA, STEVIA REBAUDIANA, ASTERACEAE, is native to the tropical and warm temperate zone of South America: Paraguay, northern Argentina and southern Brazil.It is a small perennial plant, herbaceous then shrub…
SPIRULINA
SPIRULINA are microorganisms classified among bacteria. They are part of CYANOPHYCEAE or BLUE ALGAE but according to botanists they are not real algae. Their cellular structure and composition, their mode…