Vanilla is a kind of fragrant plant, which is called aromatic plant. There are about 3000 kinds of herbs in the world, and lavender, rosemary, thyme, agastache are famous varieties. Now let's learn about the common varieties of vanilla!
Common vanilla varieties common vanilla varieties: lavender, rosemary, thyme, agastache, etc., are the pursuit objects of fashion groups. It is very popular in recent years to use the extracts and dried flower leaves of these plants to do fragrant beauty and health care in spa, drink vanilla drinks in coffee shop and tea room, or carry sachets and sachets with you. This kind of vanilla, as a fashionable potted plant, recently began to enter the fashionable room.
1. Basil
Ocimum basilicum (scientific name: Ocimum basilicum), also known as the nine storey pagoda, Jinbuhuan, St. Joseph's grass and sweet Ocimum basilicum, is a short, tender vanilla plant in Labiatae family. It was originally born in tropical Asia. It's between 20 and 60 centimeters high. Its leaves are opposite, light green and hairy, about 1.5 cm long and 1-3 cm wide. It has a strong, stimulating, fragrant smell, taste like fennel. Basil is very sensitive to cold and grows best in hot and dry conditions. Most common species are annuals, and some are perennials, including basil and basil. Basil is commonly used in Western recipes and Thai dishes, and three cups of Chinese food can also be used. In Taiwan, it is often used to cook three cups of chicken or to increase the flavor of salted crisp chicken, a night market snack. In addition, basil can also be used as a traditional Chinese medicine to treat injuries caused by falls and snakebites.
Basil, a common herb variety
2. Melissa officinalis
Vanilla (scientific name: Monarda didyma), a perennial herb of Labiatae, is native to North America“ The name "vanilla" comes from bee balm. Bergamot is also called Bergamot in English, because Bergamot also refers to the Rutaceae fruit lemon, and lemon has long been mistranslated as bergamot, so vanilla also has the alias of bergamot grass.
Melissa officinalis, another plant of Labiatae, is sometimes called vanilla.
A common herb species: Vanilla
3. Coriander
Coriander (scientific name: Coriandrum sativum), also known as coriander, coriander and coriander, is an annual herb in the same family as celery and carrot. In the Middle East, the Mediterranean, India, Latin America and Southeast Asia cooking often appear, can also be used as medicine. The whole plant is edible, but usually only its tender leaves and sun dried seeds are eaten.
Common vanilla species: coriander
4. Watercress
Watercress, also known as watercress, watercress, watercress, watercress, watercress, watercress and chrysanthemum, is one of the three varieties of watercress in Cruciferae. It is an annual or biennial herbaceous aquatic plant. Origin in Europe, the eastern Mediterranean. It was used in Rome in the early period of 1977 as a medicine against scurvy. In the dark ages of Western Europe, it was regarded as wild food.
Common herb variety -- watercress
5. Lavender
Lavandula (scientific name: Lavandula) is a genus of Labiatae, with about 25-30 species. The plants are annual herbs, subshrubs or small shrubs. Origin from the Mediterranean region, South to tropical Africa, east to India, including the Canary Islands, northern and eastern Africa, southern Europe, the Mediterranean region, the Arabian Peninsula and India.
Because cultivable varieties are widely cultivated in plantations all over the world, people can occasionally find wild Lavender populations formed by seeds floating from the garden in many non origin areas.
Lavender, a common herb variety
6. Citronella
Citronella is the general name of about 55 aromatic plants in the genus Cymbopogon of Gramineae. It is one of the common herbs. Because of its lemon aroma, it is also called lemongrass. It is suitable for planting on hillside with good drainage and altitude of 50 to 500 meters.
Common vanilla variety citronella
7. Peppermint
Mentha (scientific name: Mentha), a genus of Labiatae, contains 25 species, among which peppermint and spearmint are the most commonly used species, and there are more than 600 species of Mentha from different sources. It was first found in Europe, Mediterranean region and Western Asia. At present, the main producing areas are the United States, Spain, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, the Balkans and so on. There are also some places in Asia, and most places in China, such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and so on.
Common herb variety -- MINT
8. Vanilla Hannah
Hannah vanilla (scientific name: Hallasan) is a rare plant growing in Hannah mountain, one of the three famous mountains in South Korea. Vanilla Hannah contains a thermooxygenase. The original natural vanilla contains a kind of thermooxidative lipase, which is an essential coenzyme in the process of fat metabolism. It can promote the fat to enter mitochondria, carry out oxidative decomposition, and turn it into energy. It is reported that as early as the Koryo Dynasty, palace ladies ordered people to go to Hannah mountain to pick fresh herbs for bathing. With this herb bath, not only can the body slimming, but also jade body fragrance.
Hannah mountain