Tulsi

Botanical Name

Ocimum tenuiflorum

Botany

It is an erect, much branched sub-shrub.30-60 cm tall with hairy stems and simple, opposite, green leaves that are strongly scented. Leaves have petioles, and are ovate, up to 5cm long, usually slightly toothed. The flowers are a purplish in elongate racemes in close whorls. The two main morphotypes cultivated in India and Nepal are green-leaved (Sri or Lakshmi tulsi) and purple leaved.

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Leaves

Characteristics

Greenish

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