✿Lamiaceae · Ocimum
Babui Tulsi / Sweet Basil
Ocimum basilicum var. basilicum
Also known as Common Basil
Undershrub
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Found in India
- Karnataka
- Flowering
- Throughout the year
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Ocimum basilicum var. basilicum
- Genus
- Ocimum
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Habit
- Undershrub
- Habitat
- Widely cultivated
- Habitat type
- Cultivated
- Native to
- Old World tropics
- Distribution
- Naturalized in tropics
- Found in India
- Karnataka
- Flowering & fruiting
- Throughout the year
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Opposite
Characters marked “recorded” are for Babui Tulsi 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 Babui Tulsi itself; the rest are typical of the Lamiaceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Hindi
- बबुई तुलसी Babui tulsi, राम तुलसी Ram Tulsi
- Bengali
- Khubkalam
- Tamil
- துளஸி Tirunittru, Chankanirakkarantai, Chapchavitai
- Telugu
- bhoo tulasi, bhu-tulasi
- Kannada
- ಕಮಗಗ್ಗರೆ Kamagaggare, ಕಾಮಕಸ್ತೂರಿ Kaama kasturi
- Malayalam
- pach-cha-pushpam, pachcha, ram-tulasi
- Marathi
- Bhoo tulasi, Bhu-tulasi
About Babui Tulsi
Sweet Basil (Ocimum basilicum var. basilicum) is a low shrub in the Lamiaceae family. In India it has been recorded in Karnataka. It is widely cultivated. It flowers and fruits through much of the year.
Botanical family
Lamiaceae
Mint/Sage family
Babui Tulsi belongs to the Lamiaceae family.
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