The Anticancer, Antibacterial and Antiviral Potential of The Currant Bush
Currant bush, also known as prickly fan flower, maroon bush, and botanically referred to as scaevola spinescens, is a flowering plant belonging to the goodeniaceae family. It is native to Australia where it has been used as aboriginal medicine for ages. Continue reading [...]
Skunk Vine: A Beneficial Plant With A Stinky Name
Paederia Foetida, commonly known as skunk vine, stink vine, or Chinese fever vine, is a slender climbing vine that scrambles over other plants for support. It is native to Asia and thrives in temperate and tropical regions. The plant has oblong or ovate leaves that grow opposite each other. Blossoms are lilac or pink with five petals. Continue reading [...]
Cucumber Flowers: Fry or Use Them for Garnishing
Cucumis sativus, commonly known as the cucumber plant, is an annual flowering plant belonging to the cucurbitaceae family in the cucumis genus. The genus consists of more than 40 species including the popular watermelon and cantaloupe. Cucumber is also known as kiukaba, cetriolo, and pepino. Continue reading [...]
Yucca Blossoms: Yes, You Can Eat The Dashing Flowers
Yucca filamentosa , commonly known as yucca, is a flowering evergreen shrub in the asparagaceae family. It is native to the dry, hot regions of West Indies and the Americas.
The plant is highly adaptable which has helped it spread to other regions of the world.
Yucca is easy to identify due to its unique rosette of lance-shaped, succulent leaves, and large off-white or white blooms. Continue reading [...]
Sesame: An Edible Plant With Herbal Uses
Sesame, benne, or sesame indicum, is a strong-scented, flowering plant
commonly cultivated as a food crop. It has dark-green leaves with
serrated edges. Benne produces white rose, or light purple,
bell-shaped blossoms with pink streaks or spots. The flowers give way
to small, sausage-like pods enclosing pear-shaped seeds. Though not
very common due to its high-value oil, sesame is sometimes grown as an
ornamental plant due to its beautiful blossoms. Continue reading [...]
Beautiful, Spicy and Remedial: Meet The Saffron Crocus Flower
Saffron crocus, or saffron, and botanically known as crocus sativus, is a perennial flowering plant of the crocus genus in the iris family. Its English name, saffron, is derived from a French word, safran. The word was borrowed from the Latin word safranum, which is thought to have originated from an Arabic word that means yellow. Continue reading [...]