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Thyme is a common component of the bouquet garni, and of herbes de Provence. [9] Thyme is sold both fresh and dried. While summer-seasonal, fresh greenhouse thyme is often available year-round. The fresh form is more flavourful but also less convenient; storage life is rarely more than a week.
The leaves are eaten raw in salads or used as a fresh or dried flavoring herb in cooking and for herbal teas. [4] Other uses include essential oil, folk remedies, antiseptics, respiratory aids, aromatherapy, deodorants, perfumes, skincare and cosmetics. [4]
An example of increasing specific leaf area values as a result of drought stress is the birch tree species. [20] Birch tree specific leaf area values significantly increased after two dry seasons, though the authors did note that, in typical cases, lowered specific leaf area values are seen as an adaptation to drought stress.
The therapeutic effect of thyme is largely attributed to these essential oils belonging to the terpenoids family. [15] Thyme is considered amongst the most consequential medicinal plants due to its substantial amount of bioactive compounds. [16] Thyme has been used to treat diabetes, cold and chest infections, and coughs. [17]
A spice market in Istanbul Night spice market in Casablanca. This is a list of culinary herbs and spices.Specifically these are food or drink additives of mostly botanical origin used in nutritionally insignificant quantities for flavoring or coloring.
Its leaves are arranged in alternating pairs so that they make four rows of leaves along the stem. The leaves are 5–15 mm (0.2–0.6 in) long, 1.0–3.5 mm (0.04–0.1 in) wide, flat, elliptic in shape with a tapered end and often have their upper surface almost parallel to the stem.
Thymus pannonicus, known by its common name Hungarian thyme or Eurasian thyme, is a perennial herbaceous plant, distributed in central and eastern Europe and Russia. It grows over open dry meadows, grasslands, and rocks.
Prostanthera incisa, commonly known as cut-leaf mint-bush [2] or native thyme, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It is an erect, strongly aromatic, openly branched shrub with hairy, densely glandular branches, egg-shaped to oblong leaves, and pale mauve to mauve flowers.