BLACK PEPPER
BLACK PEPPER, PIPER NIGRUM, PIPERACEAE, is one of the oldest and most important spices;300 years BC, the Greeks were already using it. In the Middle Ages, only the very rich…
CHILI PEPPER BELL PEPPER
According to botanists there are different species of CAPSICUM (SOLANACEAE) domesticated by humans, but there are disagreements on their classification. CAPSICUM ANNUUM A distinction is usually made between CAPSICUM FRUTESCENS(chili…
OPIUM POPPY
OPIUM POPPY, PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM is the most important species in medicine among PAPAVERACEAE. It is a plant cousin of the poppy with a similar appearance but much larger. The wild…
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)…
NUTMEG
This small botanical family, MYRISTICACEAE, comprises few genera and 380 species of trees in tropical forests, especially in the Indo-Malay region, Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea. They are trees…
MORINGA DRUMSTICK TREE
MORINGA OLEIFERA, MORINGACEAE, DRUMSTICK TREE, HORSERADISH TREE is a small tree native to tropical Asia, naturalized and cultivated in many tropical countries. It is a fairly drought-resistant tree, easy to…
ST JOHN’S WORT
HYPERICUM, CLUSIACEAE ou HYPERICACEAE is a botanical genus that includes several hundred herbaceous or shrub species (more than 400) widespread in all temperate regions, Asia, Europe and the Americas. hypericum,…
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,…
KAVA AWA YAGONA
The inhabitants of the South Pacific, Melanesia and Polynesia, before their contact with the Europeans, knew only one intoxicating drink prepared from the roots of the inebriating pepper: PIPER METHYSTICUM…