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Lippia micromera, commonly referred to as stick oregano or false oregano, is a plant species. It is used in regional cuisines including Puerto Rican cuisine and Dominican cuisine. It has white flowers. It is in the Verbena family. [1] It has aromatic leaves. [2] It is used for medicinal purposes. [3] It is grown in the Caribbean. [4] and Hawaii ...
Origanum (/ oʊ ˈ r ɪ ɡ ə n ə m / oh-RIG-ə-nəm [3]) is a genus of herbaceous perennial flowering plants and subshrubs in the family Lamiaceae. They are native to Europe, North Africa, and much of temperate Asia, where they are found in open or mountainous habitats. A few species also naturalized in scattered locations in North America ...
Oregano is a woody perennial plant, growing 20–80 cm (8–31 in) tall, with opposite leaves1–4 cm (1 ⁄ 2 – 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) long. The flowers which can be white, pink or light purple, are 3–4 mm ( 1 ⁄ 8 – 3 ⁄ 16 in) long, and produced in erect spikes in summer.
The first two components give the plant a flavor similar to oregano [2] (to which it is not closely related), and the leaves are widely used as an herb in Mexico and Central America. [ 6 ] See also
Lippia is a genus of flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae. It was named after Augustin Lippi (1678–1705), a French naturalist and botanist (with Italian origins). He was killed in Abyssinia. The genus contains roughly 200 species of tropical shrubs that are found around the world.
When complete, the list below will include all food plants native to the Americas (genera marked with a dagger † are endemic), regardless of when or where they were first used as a food source. For a list of food plants and other crops which were only introduced to Old World cultures as a result of the Columbian Exchange touched off by the ...
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Origanum rotundifolium, the round-leaved oregano, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, [1] native to Turkey, Armenia and Georgia.It is a small woody-based perennial or subshrub growing to 10–30 cm (4–12 in) tall by 30 cm (12 in) wide, with strongly aromatic leaves, and loose clusters of pink flowers with hop-like pale green bracts, throughout the summer.