Aranyatulasi / Lemon Basil
Ocimum americanum
Also known as Hoary Basil
- Habit
- Herb
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu & more
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Ocimum americanum
- Genus
- Ocimum
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Habit
- Herb
- Habitat
- Open deciduous forests, wastelands and degraded forests
- Native to
- Paleotropics
- Distribution
- Paleotropics
- Found in India
- Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Assam, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Odisha, Uttarakhand
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Glaucous (waxy blue-grey bloom)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Aranyatulasi itself; the rest are typical of the Lamiaceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Flower colour
- Whiterecorded
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Zygomorphic (bilaterally symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Cyme
- Fruit
- Nutlets
Characters marked “recorded” are for Aranyatulasi itself; the rest are typical of the Lamiaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- Kali tulasi,अरण्यतुलसी aranyatulasi
- Bengali
- Kalo-tulashi
- Tamil
- Nai Thulasi, நாய்த்துளசி, கஞ்சங்குல்லை
- Telugu
- Kukka Thulasi, వన తులసి
- Kannada
- ನಾಯಿತುಳಸಿ Nayi tulasi
- Malayalam
- Kattu-tulasi
- Marathi
- Ran-tulshi
About Aranyatulasi
Lemon Basil (Ocimum americanum) belongs to the Lamiaceae family, where it grows as a herb. In India it has been recorded in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and 14 other states. It grows in open deciduous forests, wastelands and degraded forests. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Lamiaceae
Mint/Sage family
Aranyatulasi belongs to the Lamiaceae family.
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