Description: Allspice takes its name from its aroma, which smells like a combination of spices, especially cinnamon, cloves, ginger and nutmeg. Whole dried allspice will keep indefinitely when kept out of light in airtight jars.Botanical Name:&n..
Description: Not to be confused with star anise, Anise shares a similar flavor to licorice and fennel. Due to the similarities in their names and flavors, is often confused with star anise—an entirely different plant. Anise is a flowering plant ..
Description: Arnica flowers come from the daisy family that grows in Mexico and Southwest America. Closely related to Arnica Montana, this herb has long been a popular remedy; including use by Native American Indians who combined the flower..
Description: Bay leaves were once used by ancient Romans and Greeks to make crowns for royalty, nobles, heroes, and Olympians. Today, the florally herbaceous flavour of bay leaves is used to flavour soups, stews, meats, sauces and more.Botanical..
Description: Caraway is a biennial, with smooth, furrowed stems growing 1 1/2 to 2 feet high, hearing finely cut leaves, and umbels of white flowers which blossom in June.The fruits which are popularly and incorrectly called seeds - and which corresp..
Description: A Perennial, reed-like herb up to 4 metres high, with long, silky blade-shaped laves. Its long sheathing stems bear small yellowish flowers with purple tips, followed by oblong red-brown seeds. Decorticated cardamom consists of..
Description: The Greeks and Romans called it "smallage" and harvested it in the wild for its medicinal properties. The Romans used it more for cooking. When it was finally grown and harvested in the middle ages it was found to be a wonderful veg..
Description: Chamomile is a gentle herb known throughout most of the world which has been used continually for many centuries. Members of the Asteraceae family, these aromatic herbaceous plants have white daisy like flowers and scent remini..
Description: Vitex
agnus-castus is one of the few temperate-zone species of Vitex, which is on the
whole a genus of tropical and sub-tropical flowering plants. Theophrastus
mentioned the shrub several times, as agnos in Enquiry into Plants. It has..
Description: Chia seed is obtained most commonly from Salvia hispanica of the Lamiaceae family. Other plants referred to as "chia" include "golden chia" (Salvia columbariae) and the flowering herbaceous perennial Salvia polystachya, which is rar..
Description: Cloves are the aromatic flower buds of a tree in the family Myrtaceae, Syzygium aromaticum.They are native to the Maluku Islands in Indonesia, and are commonly used as a spice.Archeologists have found cloves in a ceramic vessel in S..
Description: Coriander is native to regions spanning from southern Europe and northern Africa to southwestern Asia. It is a soft plant growing to 50 cm (20 in) tall.The leaves are variable in shape, broadly lobed at the base of the plant, and slender..
Description: Cumin (Cuminum cyminum) is a flowering plant in the family Apiaceae, native from the east Mediterranean to South Asia. Its seeds (each one contained within a fruit, which is dried) are used in the cuisines of many different cultures..
Description: Sambucus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Adoxaceae. The various species are commonly called elder or elderberry. The genus was formerly placed in the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae, but was reclassified due to genet..
Description: Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare) is a flowering plant species in the carrot family. It is a hardy, perennial herb with yellow flowers and feathery leaves.It is indigenous to the shores of the Mediterranean but has become widely naturalized in..
Description: Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) is an annual plant in the family Fabaceae, with leaves consisting of three small obovate to oblong leaflets.It is cultivated worldwide as a semiarid crop, and its seeds are a common ingredient in dis..
Description: Flax (Linum usitatissimum) is a member of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae. It is a food and fiber crop cultivated in cooler regions of the world.The textiles made from flax are known in the Western co..
Description: Hawthorn Berries is a large genus of shrubs and trees in the family Rosaceae, native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere in Europe, Asia and North America. The name "hawthorn" was originally applied to the species native..
Description: Hibiscus is a genus of flowering plants in the mallow family, Malvaceae. The genus is quite large, comprising several hundred species that are native to warm-temperate, subtropical and tropical regions throughout the world. Member s..
Description: Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant Humulus lupulus. They are used primarily as a flavoring and stability agent in beer, to which they impart bitter, zesty, or citric flavours; The hop pl..
Description: Jasmine is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family (Oleaceae). It contains around 200 species native to tropical and warm temperate regions of Eurasia, Australasia and Oceania. Jasmines are widely cultivated for the cha..
Description: A juniper berry is the female seed cone produced by the various species of junipers. It is not a true berry but a cone with unusually fleshy and merged scales, which give it a berry-like appearance. The cones from a handfu..
Description: Lemon Verbena is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family Verbenaceae, native to western South America. It was brought to Europe by the Spanish and the Portuguese in the 17th century and cultivated for its oil. Lemon ..
Description: Tilia ×
europaea, generally known as the common lime (British Isles) or common linden
(North America), is a naturally occurring hybrid between Tilia cordata
(small-leaved lime) and Tilia platyphyllos (large-leaved lime). It occur..
Description: Milk thistle (Silybum marianum) is a thorny plant presenting decorative leaves with a white pattern of veins and purple flower heads. The plant originates from mountains of the Mediterranean region, where it forms scrub on a ro..
Description: Mustard seeds are the small round seeds of various mustard plants. The seeds are usually about 1 to 2 millimetres (0.039 to 0.079 in) in diameter and may be colored from yellowish white to black. They are important spice in many reg..
Description: Mustard seeds are the
small round seeds of various mustard plants. The seeds are usually about 1 to 2
millimetres (0.039 to 0.079 in) in diameter and may be colored from yellowish
white to black. They are important spice in many ..