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How to Grow
Water
Medium
Water moderately, allowing the top 3cm to dry out between watering.
Sunlight
Partial Shade - Full Sun
~
3-6 hours of sun per day, with protection from intense mid-day sun
Characteristics
Bloom Time
Jun, Jul, Aug
Plant Type
Annuals, Herbs, Herb/Forb, Annual, Edible, Herb, Herbaceous Perennial, Perennial, A stout, bushy, aromatic herb
Lifespan
Annual, Perennial
Flower
The small white flowers are lipped in shape. They are arranged in whorled racemes with bracts at the base. Some ornamental varieties have spikes of showy purple flowers. Blooms in late summer., White flowers in loose racemes
Fruit
Nutlets black, ovoid, longer than broad, 2–2.5 mm long, ± smooth to minutely tuberculate, mucilaginous when wet
Taxonomy
Order
Lamiales
Family
Lamiaceae
Genus
Ocimum