JAVA TEA ORTHOSIPHON
JAVA TEA, ORTHOSIPHON, ORTHOSIPHON STAMINEUS, LAMIACEAE, in an ornamental shrub native to South-East Asia cultivated in Indonesia, its local name: "kumis kutching" or "misai kucing" recalls its common European name:…
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…
PRICKLY PEAR
OPUNTIA are CACTACEAE = cacti with hundreds of species all native to America. Opuntia species are found from Patagonia to Alaska, but it is in the dry and warm regions…
OLIVE TREE OLIVE OIL
The OLIVE TREE, OLEA EUROPAEA (OLEA EUROPEA), OLEACEAE, is a domesticated variety of the oleaster, a plant endemic to the Mediterranean area. It is, moreover, an unfixed species of which…
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…
POMEGRANATE
The POMEGRANATE tree, PUNICA GRANATUM, LYTHRACEAE , (PUNICACEAE) is often just a bushy shrub, it is native to the Mediterranean basin or the Middle East. It was already cultivated in…
HAWTHORN
The botanical genus Crataegus or hawthorn is well represented in the temperate zones of Eurasia and North America. Hawthorns are bushy shrubs or small trees usually thorny, their foliage is…
ANDROGRAPHIS
Andrographis paniculata (= Justicia paniculata) or "king of bitters" is an acanthaceae, native to the Indo-Malayan region, where it is considered a medicinal plant of primary importance. Acanthaceae are quite…
GARLIC
Liliaceae are monocotyledonous, cosmopolitan, comprising several thousand species.Most species are perennials often with a rhizome or a bulb, especially in temperate countries (eg tulip, hyacinth, lily of the valley, onion,…
ACKEE
The plants belonging to the large Sapindaceae family (soapberry)are mainly tropical, but the Canadian maple and the European horse chestnut are part of them.Sapindaceae are well represented in Asia with…