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: Uncaria is a genus of flowering plants in
the family Rubiaceae. It has about 40 species. Their distribution is
pantropical, with most species native to tropical Asia, three from Africa and
the Mediterranean and two from the neotr..
Description: Catnip
is famous for its drug-like effects on house cats, but it also has a variety of
other uses. The extracted ingredient, iridodial, is used as an attractant for
lacewing flies, which eat aphids and mites. Another ingredi..