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  • COMMON NAME: Basil
  • ARABIC: صومع، ريحان
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Ocimum forsskaolii Benth.
  • FAMILY: LAMIACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Cosmectis (C)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Herbs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Rocky)
  • TYPES: Annual
  • REMARKS: Their fragrance causes headaches and dizziness.
M.V.D jongbloed, G.R. Fuelner, B. Boer, A.R. Western. the comprehensive guide to the wild flowers of the United Arab Emirates. Environmental research and wildlife Development agency, Abu Dhabi, 2003. V.V. Byalt, V.M. Korshunov, M.V. Korshunov. Cadaster of the Flora of Fujairah Emirate (United Arab Emirates). Al Fujairah 2021.
leaves are used as a deodorant. Crushed leaves placed in nose to treat colds and in ears to treat earaches.
Annual, stems, slender, square. erect or spreading, up to 35 cm, often supported by surrounding vegetation, strongly aromatic. Leaves oval with finely toothed edge and pointed tip, 0.5-1.8*1.2-3 cm, glossy dark green, opposite or in whorls, on stalk up to 0.5 cm. Inflorescence a terminal spike of 6-flowered clusters in whorls, spaced at 2 cm intervals, from nodes of reduced leaves. Flowering from February to April.
Plantations and fields.
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