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Plants for Health There are 118 products.
In this section we gathered those plants that are said to have a positive effect on health. These species belong to different plant families and different areas of the world. The diversity of human culture has learnt to live with the diversity of plants and some species became therapeutical or medicinal. Some, like Aloe vera grow in sunny and dry conditions and can live in a small pot. Some others will become large trees and need space and time to grow. Remember to be careful, not all these plants are edible, some are toxic if eaten or applied to the skin.
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Curcuma longa - Turmeric
Curcuma longa - Turmeric
Turmeric is a basic spice in Asian cuisine, used as a food dye in the whole world. A bit of turmeric added to any dish will prevent arthrosis and many other health problems.
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Curcuma zedoaria - White Turmeric
Curcuma zedoaria - White Turmeric
Both ornamental and useful, white turmeric is a deciduous ginger. It starts growth in April-June, with a very showy pink-white inflorescence, shooting up from the ground.
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Dioscorea polystachya - Chinese Yam
Dioscorea polystachya - Chinese Yam
Chinese yam is a large climbing plant with arrow-shaped leaves. The tubers are cylindrical, with lots of tiny bumbs., They edible and usually cooked, but they can also be eaten raw. The plant is hardy to -17 C.
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Eleutherine bulbosa - Dayak Onion
Eleutherine bulbosa - Dayak Onion
This reddish bulb from tropical America has leaves reminiscent of a palm-tree seedling. Flowers are white and star-shaped. Itis easy to keep and reproduce as it can be grown as winter-dormant and then loves warm and humid, greenhouse conditions with well draining soil.
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Erythrina velutina - Mulungu
Erythrina velutina - Mulungu
Erythrina velutina - Mulungu Majestic tree which is both ornamental and useful, with bright orange-red flowers. It is found in seasonally dry forests of much of South America and it is used in popular medicine throughout most of its range.
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Etlingera elatior 'Pink'
Etlingera elatior 'Pink'
This is the pink form of a fabulous exotic bloom! "Torch gingers" are tropical ornamental plants of supreme beauty. The torch-like inflorescence is produced at eye level and the vegetative shoots are also very elegant. It is used as a food ingredient for delicacies in SE Asia and also as a medicine.
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Ferraria crispa
Ferraria crispa
Truly exotic flowers, star-shaped, with frilly margins, speckled in maroon and yellow, with a sweet vanilla scent. They come out of fan-arranged leaves that grow from tiny underground corms. It is native to the Cape Province in South Africa.
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Firmiana simplex - Chinese Parasol Tree
Firmiana simplex - Chinese Parasol Tree
A frost resistant tree relative of the more tropical Sterculia and Brachychiton.
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Ginkgo biloba
Ginkgo biloba
Ginkgo is a fabulous Asian tree, able to grow in cold temperate to subtropical climates. It is an excellent ornamental but it is also appreciated for its medicinal properties.
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Gloriosa superba ‘Rothschildiana’
Gloriosa superba ‘Rothschildiana’
Perennal plant native from Africa and Asia.
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Gynura bicolor - Okinawan Spinach
Gynura bicolor - Okinawan Spinach
This edible gynura is a small herbaceous shrub with some truly showy foliage, which is purple and glossy in the underleaf. It is native to SE.Asia, where it is used as a medicine and as a food. It is cooked as any spinach-like lettuce.
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Gynura procumbens - Longevity Spinach
Gynura procumbens - Longevity Spinach
Edible leafy shrub native to SE.Asia, where it is used as a medicine and as a food. It is cooked as any spinach-like lettuce.
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Haworthia limifolia var. limifolia
Haworthia limifolia var. limifolia
Cont.= 8,5. Different Haworthia, with flat leaves, heavily banded with ridges. This clone is dark green to rusty brown, depending on light, up to 10 cm in diam. Native from Mozambique to Mpumalanga. It has antibacterial and antifungal properties.
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Helichrysum Italicum
Helichrysum Italicum
Helichrysum italicum is a flowering plant of the daisy family Asteraceae. It is sometimes called false curry plant. It grows on dry, rocky or sandy ground around the Mediterranean. The stems are woody at the base and can reach 60 cm or more in height. The clusters of yellow flowers are produced in Summer, they retain their colour after picking and are...
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Honeydew Honey
Honeydew Honey
Wow! This highly prized Canarian honeydew-honey includes a lot of nectar and secretions collected from banana inflorescences, and also from the insects honeydew existing there and in the neighbouring avocado orchards. It is very smooth and not as sweet as most honeys. VERY HEALTHY! It is produced in Northern Tenerife, during the warmer months. Certified...
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Hoodia gordonii
Hoodia gordonii
Beautiful branched Hoodia from Botswana, South Africa and Namibia. It has become also popular as a medicinal plant, since it reputedly works as an appetite suppressant.
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Ipomoea aquatica 'Narrow Leaf' - Water Spinach
Ipomoea aquatica 'Narrow Leaf' - Water Spinach
This is one of the most useful veggies to keep at hand. It It will thrive almost anywhere and will produce tasty and healthy food throughout the warmer months, with an exotic ornamental accent. Flowers are pink, with a purple throat, abundantly produced by well-fed plants.
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Ipomoea batatas 'Molokai' - Dark Purple Sweet Potato
Ipomoea batatas 'Molokai' - Dark Purple Sweet Potato
One of the healthiest of all foods! This purple sweet potato has an unbelievable look. It is the darkest of all sweet potatoes, discovered on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, and packed with healthy xanthocyans.
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Ipomoea batatas 'Okinawa' - Okinawan Purple Sweet Potato
Ipomoea batatas 'Okinawa' - Okinawan Purple Sweet Potato
Okinawan Sweet Potatoes are known to be the reason why the old natives of Okinawa used to live for so long. TThe high concentration of purple Xanthocyans in this tuber have life-lengthening properties. This cultivar is quite popular in SE Asia to Hawaii. It forms clumps (n,ot much running) and takes about 5-6 months to be gathered.
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Kaempferia parviflora - Thai black ginger
Kaempferia parviflora - Thai black ginger
Healthy in general, as most gingers, this Kaempferia is used as a strengthener or aphrodisiac since immemorial times. It is also a nice ornamental: flowers are not too exciting (parvi-flora means small flowered) but leaves are glossy and wavy.
23,20 €
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