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Ocimum tenuiflorum

Ocimum tenuiflorum, also known as Holy Basil, tulsi, or tulas, is an aromatic plant in the family Lamiaceae which is native throughout the Eastern World tropics and widespread as a cultivated plant.[1] It is an erect, much branched subshrub, 3060 cm tall with hairy stems and simple, opposite, green leaves that are strongly scented. Leaves have petioles, and areovate, up to 5 cm long, usually slightly toothed. The flowers are purplish in elongate racemesin close whorls.[2] The two main morphotypes cultivated in India and Nepal are greenleaved (Sri or Lakshmi tulsi) and purple-leaved (Krishna tulsi).[3] Tulsi is cultivated for religious and medicinal purposes, and for its essential oil. It is widely known across South Asia as a medicinal plant and an herbal tea, commonly used inAyurveda, and has an important role within the Vaishnavite tradition of Hinduism, in which devotees perform worship involving holy basil plants or leaves.

Money Plant
Money Plant Common Name: Money Plant Botanical Name: Epipremnum Scindapsus Aureum. Availability: In Stock One of the most common Indoor plant in India, Money plant is a vigorous climber, it habitats being the humid tropical climate, where it attaches itself to the bark of host tree trunk. It is easy to grow in indoor conditions and as a household plant its aerial roots can be trained to cover a moss pole to a height of 3-5 ft., or its tendrils can look good trailing over a hanging basket. The plant can also be grown in water. Money Plant has glossy green leaves covered with yellow patches or spots. These will gradually fade and should be removed from the stem. Pinch out new shoots occasionally to ensure dense growth. It needs warm, humid conditions and should be sprayed frequently with tepid water.

Coconut
The coconut palm (also, cocoanut), Cocos nucifera, is a member of the family Arecaceae(palm family). It is the only accepted species in the genus Cocos.[2] The term coconut can refer to the entire coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which, botanically, is a drupe, not anut. The spelling cocoanut is an archaic form of the word.[3] The term is derived from 16thcentury Portuguese and Spanish coco, meaning "head" or "skull",[4] from the three small holes on the coconut shell that resemble human facial features. Found throughout the tropic and subtropic area, the coconut is known for its great versatility as seen in the many domestic, commercial, and industrial uses of its different parts. Coconuts are part of the daily diets of many people. Coconuts are different from any other fruits because they contain a large quantity of "water"

and when immature they are known as tender-nuts or jelly-nuts and may be harvested for drinking. When mature, they still contain some water and can be used as seednuts or processed to give oil from the kernel, charcoal from the hard shell and coir from the fibrous husk. The endosperm is initially in its nuclear phase suspended within the coconut water. As development continues, cellular layers of endosperm deposit along the walls of the coconut, becoming the edible coconut "flesh".[5]

Chillies trees!
It is becoming increasingly trendy to call chilli plants trees or even chilli trees. In fact, recent media claims have gone so far as to suggest that not only are chilli plants trees but that they are hardy outside in an English winter. This isnt true. You need to know that chillies cant survive the freezing spells of an English winter nor are chillies trees!!! First of all, what is a tree? Wikipedia describes a tree as a woody perennial that grows at least three meters in height. Also, compared with other plants trees are considered to be long-living, more than five years. Chillies are capsicums, which are part of the nightshade family, solanaceae. Other types of solanaceae are potatoes and aubergines and even tomatoes. Although some chillies can develop woody growth on their stems, Solanacae are known more for their vegetative growth.

Momordica charantia
Momordica charantia often called bitter melon, bitter gourd or bitter squash in English, has many other local names. Goya[1] from the indigenous language of Okinawa andkaravella[2] from Sanskrit are also used by Englishlanguage speakers. It is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean for its edible fruit, which is among the most bitter of allfruits.[citation needed] Its many varieties differ substantially in the shape and bitterness of the fruit. Bitter melon originated on the Indian subcontinent, and was carried to China in the 14th century.[3] This herbaceous, tendril-bearing vine grows to 5 m. It bears simple, alternate leaves 412 cm across, with three to seven deeply separated lobes. Each plant bears separate yellow male and female flowers. In the Northern Hemisphere, flowering occurs during June to July and fruiting during September to November.

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