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Local Name; Tanglad

Common Name; Lemon Grass
Cymbopogon citratus
Location; infront of the old STE building
Cymbopogon citratus, is a perennial grass in the family Poaceae grown for its fragrant leaves and stalks
which are used as a flavoring. The grass grows in dense clumps and has several stiff stems and slender blade-like
leaves which droop towards the tips. The leaves are blue-green in color, turning red in the Fall and emit a strong
lemon fragrance when damaged. Lemon grass can reach a height of 1.8 m (6 ft) and will grow for several years,
typically its economical lifespan is 4 years. Citratus flourishes in the sunny, warm, humid conditions of the
tropics.

The stalks (leaf bases) of the plant are commonly used to flavor dishes in Southeast Asian cooking. The
heart of young shoots may be cooked and consumed as a vegetable. The tougher leaves are used to flavor dishes
but are typically removed before serving. Leaves may also be used to make lemon grass tea. The essential oil
extracted from the leaves is commonly used in insect repellents, perfumes and soaps.Lemongrass has different
uses it can also reduces dandruff and can also suggests that drinking a lemongrass tea decreases symptoms of
thrush in people with HIV/AIDS (Thomas, 1995).
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Local Name: Gumamela

Common Name; Gumamela
Hibiscus
Location; Saudi area infront of building 21
Gumamela is an erect, much-branched, glabrous shrub, 1 to 4 meters high. Leaves are glossy green, ovate,
acuminate, pointed, coarsely-toothed, 7 to 12 centimeters long, alternate, stipulate. Flowers are solitary, axillary,
very large, about 10 centimeters long, and 12 centimeters in diameter. Outermost series of bracteoles are 6,
lanceolate, green, and 8 millimeters long or less. Calyx is green, about 2 centimeters long, with ovate lobes. Petals
are red, orange or rose-white, obovate, entire, rounded tip, and imbricate. Stamens form a long staminal tube
enclosing the entire style of the pistil and protruding out of the corolla. Ovary is 5-celled, styles are 5, fused
below. Fruits are capsules, loculicidally 5-valved, but rarely formed in cultivation.
- The leaves of hibiscus trees are also used as a shampoo as it leaves the hair soft and shiny.And sometimes
it can also used to cure a wounds. These blossoms can make a decorative addition to a home or garden, but they
also have medicinal uses. The flowers and leaves can be made into teas and liquid extracts that can help treat a
variety of conditions.Hibiscus has been used by different cultures as a remedy for several conditions. Egyptians
used hibiscus tea to lower body temperature, treat heart and nerve diseases, and as a diuretic to increase urine
production ( New World Encyclopedia , 2009).
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Local Name;Pandan
Common Name; Pandan
Pandanus amaryllifolius
Location; infront of the old STE building
Pandanus amaryllifolius is a tropical plant in the Pandanus (screwpine) genus, which is commonly known
as pandan and is used widely in South Asian and Southeast Asian cooking as a flavoring.
Pandan Leaf has low levels of essential oil, including 2- acetyl-1-pyrroline (which also gives the aroma in
Thai and Basmati rice), styrene, linalool, and β-cayophyllene. It also contains piperidine-like alkaloids
(pandamarine, pandamarilactones) that give screw pine its milky, floral-like taste.

Leaves of P. amaryllifolius are widely used to flavour ordinary rice, as a substitute for expensive aromatic
rice cultivars. Fragrant pandan has definite potential as an ornamental plant, in the garden as well as for interior
decoration. P. amaryllifolius has a number of local medicinal and ceremonial uses. It can also used in flavoring
some food .You can use the leaves whole and boiled in liquid for the flavour, like a sweet soup, syrup or coconut
milk. But don't eat the leaves on their own as they are tasteless, stringy and quite unpleasant. P. amaryllifolius
leaves have a number of local medicinal uses. Leaf extracts have been thought to reduce fever, relieve indigestion
and flatulence, and act as a cardiotonic.( Cheeptan, 2017).
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Medicinal and Aromatic Plants. New Delhi, India: Malhotra Publishing House, 726.

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N., Cheeptham; G.H.N., Towers. "Light-mediated activities of some Thai medicinal plant teas".
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