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Alpinia calcarata – Grasses

Sway (Acorus calamus) – Herb garden

Horehound (Marrubium vulgare) – Herb garden

Horehound (Marrubium vulgare) is an attractive, ornamental herbaceous perennial flowering plant in the mint family. It has 2–5 cm long, thick, deeply wrinkled grey-green leaves that are oval to heart-shaped, with scalloped edges covered with wooly white downy hairs. The entire plant has a brisk, medicinal scent, especially when rubbed. The flowers are white, borneRead More

Chinese Balsam (Impatiens chinensis) – Flowering plants

Chinese Balsam (Impatiens chinensis) is a small annual herb that grows up to 12-24 inches tall. The erect stem is reddish in color, prostrate at the base, slender, hairless. Nodes are slightly swollen, with adventitious roots. It has oppositely arranged, linear- lance-shaped leaves that are gray-green below, green on the upper side, rigidly papery. TheRead More

Begonia malabarica – Flowering plants

Begonia malabarica is a small shrub medicinal plant that grows up to 80 inches tall. The stems are reddish, glabrous. It has heart-shaped leaves that are 2-4 inches, pointed, very unequal at the base, with a toothed margin. The flowers arise in leaf axils, with flower-cluster-stalks rarely exceeding 2-3 inches. Flowers are rose-colored, not veryRead More

Shatavari (Asparagus racemosus) – Herb garden

Shatavari (Asparagus racemosus) is an evergreen perennial that grows up to 1-2 m tall from a tuberous rootstock. It has small pine-needle-like phylloclades (photosynthetic branches) that are uniform and shiny green. It produces minute, white flowers on short, spiky stems, and the fruits are blackish-purple, globular berries. It has an adventitious root system with tuberousRead More

Asparagus flagellaris – Herb garden

Asparagus flagellaris is the popular erect shrub plant. Its branches terete or grooved, smooth to lined with straight or curved spines, these also on terminal branches, glabrous to pubescent. The flowers are axillary, solitary or paired, bracts overlapping, ovate, acute at apex, pedicels, articulated below the middle, closer to the base, and tepals are whiteRead More

Fern Asparagus – Herb garden

Fern Asparagus is the most popular evergreen perennial, erect herb with a short rhizome with fleshy swollen fasciculate roots. The stems are erect, herbaceous, unarmed. The false leaves (Cladodes) occur in whorls 4-6, linear, sickle-shaped, and flat. The flowers are usually bisexual, solitary, or paired, arise in the axil of cladode, in the middle orRead More

Asparagus adscendens – Flowering plants

Asparagus adscendens is an evergreen perennial, shrub, or subshrub, medicinal herb plant. The stems are tall, suberect, terete, smooth, white, and much-branched. The branchlets are climbing, ash gray-white, grooved and angled. The angles are minutely scabrid. The spines are 1-2 cm long, stout, and straight. The cladodes are dense, slender, filiform & soft. It producesRead More

Nepeta cataria (Catnip)

Nepeta cataria (Catnip) is an ornamental, erect perennial herbaceous plant that grows to 20–39 inches high, which are very leafy and covered with a mealy down. The heart-shaped, toothed leaves are likewise covered with a soft, close down, especially on the undersides, which are quite white with it, so that the whole plant has aRead More

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