Lamiaceae FAMILY

Leucas martinicensis

Edibility

0/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Wild tea bush is an erect, usually unbranched, annual, aromatic herb growing from 50 - 100 cm tall[ 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ , 372 Title Flowers of India Publication Author Website http://www.flowersofindia.net/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A wed site of native Indian plants, plus cultivated and naturalized species. It has good quality photos and terse details on more than 3,000 species and cultivars. ]. The plant is sometimes gathered from the wild and used as a tea and insect repellent.

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeWidely spread in tropical and subtropical Africa to Indian subcontinent, Myanmar and Malaysia.

HabitatOpen ground and waste places, often as a weed of cultivation[ 332 Title The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa. Publication Author Burkil. H. M. Publisher Royal Botanic Gardens; Kew. Year 1985 - 2004 ISBN Description Brief descriptions and details of the uses of over 4,000 plants. A superb, if terse, resource, it is also available electronically on the Web - see http://www.aluka.org/ ].