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What is basil

Skyler White
2020-07-14 08:43:14
Plant: Basil is a dual-purpose plant for medicine and food. Its plants are very small, about 20 to 80 cm high. Leaf: its leaves are oval or oval oblong, with irregular teeth or close to the whole edge. Flowers: flowers are racemes, terminal on stems and branches, corolla purplish or upper lip white lower lip purplish red.

I. plant

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

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2. Leaves

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.

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3. Flowers

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.

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