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Clove basil
Ocimum gratissimum
About
Ocimum gratissimum, also known as clove basil, African basil, and in Hawaii as wild basil, is a species of Ocimum. It is native to Africa, Madagascar, southern Asia, and the Bismarck Archipelago, and naturalized in Polynesia, Hawaii, Mexico, Panama, West Indies, Brazil, and Bolivia.
- Family
- Lamiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Ocimum gratissimum
- Slug
- ocimum-gratissimum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Ocimum
- Species
- gratissimum
- Wikidata QID
- Q2355390
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
Generated sections & citations
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