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It is used as a medicinal plant and as a culinary herb. The leaves have a tarragon-like scent, with hints of anise , and it has entered the nursery trade in North America as a tarragon substitute. Common names include sweetscented marigold , [ 3 ] Mexican marigold , Mexican mint marigold , Mexican tarragon , sweet mace , Texas tarragon ...
Achillea ageratum, also known as sweet yarrow, [2] sweet-Nancy, [3] English mace, [4] or sweet maudlin, [5] is a flowering plant in the sunflower family. it was originally native to Switzerland, before spreading across Europe (to Portugal, Spain, France, England, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Croatia and Romania), and Morocco.
Specifically these are food or drink additives of mostly botanical origin used in nutritionally insignificant quantities for flavoring or coloring. This list does not contain fictional plants such as aglaophotis, or recreational drugs such as tobacco. It also excludes plants used primarily for herbal teas or medicinal purposes.
Mace tends to be a bit more expensive than nutmeg. (Nutmeg trees yield more nutmeg than they do mace.) Like nutmeg, mace is usually available in ground form at your local grocery store.
Nutmeg is the spice made by grinding the seed of the fragrant nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans) into powder.The spice has a distinctive pungent fragrance and a warm, slightly sweet taste; it is used to flavor many kinds of baked goods, confections, puddings, potatoes, meats, sausages, sauces, vegetables, and such beverages as eggnog.
Myristica is a genus of trees in the family Myristicaceae.There are over 150 species, distributed in Asia and the western Pacific as far as Vanuatu. [2] [3]The type species of the genus, and the most economically important member, is Myristica fragrans (the nutmeg tree), from which mace is also derived.
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