The Tasmanian Blue Gum, Southern Blue Gum or Blue Gum, (Eucalyptusglobules) is an evergreen tree, one of the most widely cultivated trees native to Australia. They typically grow from 30 to 55 m (98 to 180 ft) tall. The tallest currently known specimen in Tasmania is 90.7 m tall (297 ft). There are historical claims of even taller trees, the tallest being 101 m.330 ft). The natural distribution of the species includes Tasmania and southern Victoria. There are also isolated occurrences on King Island and Flinders Is...

Elemi oil is extracted from the resin of the elemi tree, scientifically called Canarium luzonicum, and also known as Manila elemi. A tropical tree from the Philippines, the elemi can grow up to 115 feet tall, and exudes the pale yellow resin when it sprouts leaves—which can grow to nearly a foot long. Related to the trees that produce frankincense, elemi was sometimes used in the place of frankincense when the latter became very expensive. Elemi has a spicy, incense-like scent that is soft and somewhat balsamic. A member of the same botanical family as frankincense and myrrh, it has bee...

Dill also known as Lao coriander, depending on where it is grown, is either a perennial or annual herb. It is the sole species of the genus Anthem. Fresh and dried dill leaves (sometimes called "dill weed" to distinguish it from dill seed) are widely used as herbs in Germany, Poland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Baltic, Russia, and central Asia. An ancient Egyptian remedy in the Ebers papyrus (c. 1500 BC) recommends dill as one of the ingredients in a pain-killing mixture. The Romans knew dill as anthem, which later became "anise". Dill has always...

Cubeb or tailed pepper or shital chini / kabab chini in Hindi is a plant in genus Piper, cultivated for its fruit and essential oil. It is mostly grown in Java and Sumatra, hence sometimes called Java pepper. The fruits are gathered before they are ripe, and carefully dried. Commercial cubebs consist of the dried berries, similar in appearance to black pepper, but with stalks attached — the "tails" in "tailed pepper". The dried per carp is wrinkled, its color ranges from grayish-brown to black. The seed is hard, white ...

Artemisia pollens, Dhavanam, are an aromatic herb, In genus of small herbs or shrubs, xerophytes In nature. The flowers are racemes panicles bear numerous small yellow flower heads or Capitola, but the silvery white silky covering of down gives the foliage a Grey or white appearance. Davanam has alternate punnasect leaves (leaf which is divided into opposite pairs of lobes cut almost to the midrib in narrow divisions) or palmatisect leaves (the green tissue is divided into several segments not fully separated at the base). It is commercially culti...