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| Aegle Species Aegle marmelos Bael fruit. Another holy plant from India.Its leaves are holy to lord Shiva.The fruit have a hard shell, although looking like a pomelo, it has to be crushed like a coconut.Inside is a pulp that has a strong banana /peach / papaya like smell.Its taste is difficult to describe.The fruits pulp is mixed with water (5 l per fruit) and the juice of one lime +some sugar or jaggery.It is then refrigerated.It cools the body.One big glass of bael juice (sharbat) and one stops sweating for a couple of hours.It also cures many many stomac and intestinal problems. Before coconut became widespread in Northern India, bael fruit was used in temples in the same way coconut is used nowadays. Today it's leaves are used in shiva ling poojah. | Seeds |  (island_lady) |
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| Bixa Species Bixa orellana Lipstick tree. The seeds can be crushed to make a powerfull red dye, used as body paint in the amazon region and also used in mesoamerican cooking as a flavour and food colour. Nice looking exotic plant with interesting seed pods. | Seeds |  (island_lady) |
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| Musa Musa paradisiaca This plant grows very large but needs slightly acidic soil.The seeds germinate rather quick, compared to other musa varities | Seeds |  (island_lady) |
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| Ocimum Ocimum sanctum Green variety.A tropical/subtropical basil I brought from India.It is considered the holiest of all plants for hindus. Keeps mosquitos at bay as well as many bacteria that may be found in soils such as leprosy and tubercolosis .Doesn't taste like Thai basil or common basil.It has a clove-like smell. It is not trad. used for sauces and salads but used for spiritual reasons as well as in ayurverdic medicine. It is said tha Yama, the lord of death, cannot approach a house where a healthy tulsi plant is kept.Therefore, almost every hindu (vaishnava) family keeps a tulsi plant at the house.Should it die, it is considered a major catastrophy. | 'Linn' | Seeds |  (PlantFiles) |
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