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A reduction cut may be performed while still allowing about 50% of the branch. This is done to help maintain form and deter the formation of co-dominant leaders. Temporary branches may be too large for a removal cut so subordination pruning should be done to slowly reduce a limb by 50% each year to allow the tree to properly heal from the cut.
The plants have strongly aromatic leaves and abundant tubular flowers with long-lasting coloured bracts. The genus includes the important group of culinary herbs: marjoram (Origanum majorana) and oregano (Origanum vulgare). [7] [8] With their decorative bracts, Origanum species and cultivars are used as ornamental plants in the garden.
Dried oregano leaves. Oregano is a culinary herb, used for the flavour of its leaves, which can be more intense when dried than fresh. It has an earthy, warm, and slightly bitter taste, which can vary in intensity. Good-quality oregano may be strong enough to almost numb the tongue, but cultivars adapted to colder climates may have a lesser ...
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.
It is a perennial common in southern Europe and north to Sweden in dry copses and on hedge-banks, with many stout stems 30–80 centimetres (12–31 in) high, bearing short-stalked, somewhat ovate leaves and clusters of purple flowers. It has a stronger flavor than marjoram. Pot marjoram or Cretan oregano has similar uses to marjoram.
Origanum libanoticum (Lebanese oregano, hopflower oregano, cascading hopflower oregano, ornamental oregano or cascading oregano) [2] [3] is a species of herbaceous flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae, native to the mountains of Lebanon and Syria. [4]
Leaves are boiled and strained and the water discarded. [346] Sesamum alatum: Sésame de gazelle: Eaten in dry regions of Africa like Chad as a vegetable. Considered as famine food in some areas [347] [348] [349] Sesamum indicum: Sesame [350] [351] Sesamum radiatum: Benniseed: Fresh leaves and young shoots are a popular leafy vegetable in ...
Leaf cuttings, in which a leaf is placed on moist soil. These have to develop both new stems and new roots. Some leaves will produce one plant at the base of the leaf. In some species, multiple new plants can be produced at many places on one leaf, and these can be induced by cutting the leaf veins.