Basil is a kind of plant which can be used for medicine and food. Its taste is very similar to that of fennel. Its plants are very small, the leaves are green, the flowers are bright and fragrant, the height is about 20 to 80 cm
Basil's leaves are oval or oval oblong, growing about 2.5 to 5 cm, 1 to 2.5 cm wide, the apex is slightly blunt or sharp, the base is gradually narrow, the edge has irregular teeth or close to the entire edge, the Petiole grows about 1.5 cm.
Basil's flowers are racemes, terminal on the stems and branches, each evenly puberulent, usually about 10 to 20 cm long, composed of mostly 6-flowered alternating opposite cymes, calyx is bell shaped, about 4 mm long, corolla lilac or upper lip white and lower lip purplish red.