Bay leaf, also called laurel leaf, leaf of the sweet bay tree (Laurus nobilis), an evergreen of the family Lauraceae, indigenous to countries bordering the Mediterranean. … Bay has been cultivated from ancient times; its leaves constituted the wreaths of laurel that crowned victorious athletes in ancient Greece.
It is a biennial, aromatic, stout, glabrous, 1.5 to 1.8 mtr high. The ripe fruit (seed) is small, oblong, cylindrical,…
Cumin is the dried, white fruit with greyish brown colour of a small slender annual herb. The surface of the…
The clove of commerce is the air-dried unopened flower bud obtained from evergreen medium sized tree. The tree grows to…