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Scientific name Name Description Picture Bellis perennis: Daisy Flowers have been used in the traditional Austrian medicine internally as tea (or the leaves as a salad) for treatment of disorders of the gastrointestinal and respiratory tract. [18] Berberis vulgaris: Barberry
Scientific name Flavor Color Common name Abelmoschus esculentus: Vegetal: Medium-yellow: Okra Anthriscus cerefolium: Herbal: White: Chervil Asparagus officinalis
This page is a sortable table of plants used as herbs and/or spices.This includes plants used as seasoning agents in foods or beverages (including teas), plants used for herbal medicine, and plants used as incense or similar ingested or partially ingested ritual components.
Shiso – shiso [17] is the now common name [18] for the Japanese culinary herb, seed, or entire annual plant of Perilla frutescens. Sorrel – or garden sorrel, often simply called sorrel, is a perennial herb that is cultivated as a garden herb or leaf vegetable. Tarragon – perennial herb in the family Asteraceae related to wormwood.
The use of plants for medicinal purposes, and their descriptions, dates back two to three thousand years. [10] [11] The word herbal is derived from the mediaeval Latin liber herbalis ("book of herbs"): [2] it is sometimes used in contrast to the word florilegium, which is a treatise on flowers [12] with emphasis on their beauty and enjoyment rather than the herbal emphasis on their utility. [13]
An herb is a plant grown for medicinal value or for flavoring food. There is some overlap between the milder leafy herbs and the more strongly-flavored leaf vegetables . This category does not include the much wider category of herbaceous plants which are also called herbs in some countries.
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[12] Crabapples: Malus sylvestris and other Malus species: Malus is native to the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere, in Europe, Asia and North America. Fruit (from July), edible raw or, if too bitter, cooked as a jelly (containing much pectin) [13] Medlar: Mespilus germanica: Southeast Europe to West Asia, occasionally naturalized in ...