BITTER ORANGE SWEET ORANGE
RUTACEAE include about 130 genera and more than 1500 species of trees or shrubs mainly from warm regions. The leaves of rutaceae are often punctuated with small vesicular inclusions containing…
COMMON WALNUT BLACK WALNUT
Walnut trees, JUGLANDACEAE, are large trees found on all continents and of which there are about twenty species. There was a walnut tree in Europe but it did not survive…
NONI NONO MORINDA
With rare exceptions, RUBIACEAE are tropical plants, mainly trees and shrubs.It is a large plant family, more than 5000 species, where we find coffee and two important mdicinal plants:cinchona (quinine)…
NEEM TREE
AZADIRACHTA INDICA, Neem tree or Neem (English common name used throughout the world) is included in the MELIACEAE family (such as mahogany), it is probably native to the Indo-Malay region.…
BITTER GOURD KARELA
Like squash, cucumber, melon, watermelon , BITTER GOURD ( karela in India ) is a climbing or creeping plant.There are around sixty species of momordica originating from the old world…
LAVENDER
Lavenders(LABIATEAE), are typical shrubs of the Mediterranean region (hot and dry in summer, humid in winter ) and they develop well in limestone soils at medium and low altitude (0…
LAUREL BAY TREE
Important Botanical family in warmer regions, the Lauraceae are often aromatic, they are trees or evergreen shrubs. The noble laurel (bay tree) , LAURUS NOBILIS, LAURACEAE,is native to Asia Minor,…
LANTANA
The lantana genus is found in all the tropical or sub-tropical regions of the world. Both species LANTANA CAMARA, LANTANA INVOLUCRATA, VERBENACEAE are probably native to the West Indies and…
HIBISCUS ROSELLE SORREL
HIBISCUS, MALVACEAE, are herbaceous, bushy plants, small shrubs or true trees, mainly from tropical and subtropical regions. They are botanically very close to OKRAS (GOMBOS) and PACIFIC CABBAGE which are…
PSIDIUM GUAJAVA
Unlike other members of the MYRTACEAE family, eucalyptus or cloves , guava is not very aromatic. This small tree, PSIDIUM GUAJAVA, of 3 to 10 m, with very hard wood,…