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Marjoram Sweet

Marjoram is a perennial herb with gray-green leaves and small white to pink flowers. It has a delicate flavor that is popular in Italian and Greek cooking. Marjoram can be used fresh or dried in meat dishes, soups, sauces, and more to flavor foods. It also has medicinal uses for bronchial and digestive issues, though it should not be used by pregnant women. Commercially, marjoram seeds and oil are used in food flavorings, perfumes, soaps and more. It grows well in sunny, drained soil and can be propagated from cuttings.

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Marjoram Sweet

Marjoram is a perennial herb with gray-green leaves and small white to pink flowers. It has a delicate flavor that is popular in Italian and Greek cooking. Marjoram can be used fresh or dried in meat dishes, soups, sauces, and more to flavor foods. It also has medicinal uses for bronchial and digestive issues, though it should not be used by pregnant women. Commercially, marjoram seeds and oil are used in food flavorings, perfumes, soaps and more. It grows well in sunny, drained soil and can be propagated from cuttings.

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HERB HERBERT FAVOURITE HERBS

Marjoram Sweet
Origanum marjorana
here are 36 species of perennials and sub-shrubs in this genus, which is Eurasians distribution. About 20 are grown as ornamentals, for their attractive, aromatic foliage and purple-pink to white flowers, which in certain species are surrounded by conspicuous bracts. The name Origanum comes from origanon ("bitter herb"), the original Greek name used by Hippocrates for these plants. Origanum marjorana (sweet marjoram) is a perennial shrub with wiry, red-brown stems and downy, graygreen leaves. Very small white to pink flowers are produced in clustered spikes from late summer to midautumn. PARTS USED Whole plant, leaves, oil

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USES OF THE HERB Culinary O. marjorana has a more delicate flavour than O. vulgare, and is best-used fresh toward the end of cooking. Leaves and flowering sprigs are popular in Italian and Greek cooking, with meat dishes, soups, tomato sauces, and pasta, and to flavour oil and vinegar. Medicinal Internally for bronchial complaints, tension headache, anxiety, minor digestive upsets, and painful mens tru atio n. Not given to preg nant women . Externally for bronchial congestion, muscular pain, arthritis, sprains, and stiff joints. Economic Seeds are added to condiments and meat products. Oil is used in commercial food flavoring, liqueurs, perfumery, soaps, and hair products.
Height and Spread 45cm/18in

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CULTIVATION Well-drained soil in sun. Propagate by cuttings of nonflowering shoots in early spring to summer. HARVEST Plants are cut as flowering begins, and leaves during the growing season, to be used fresh or dried. PROPERTIES Similar to O. vulgare, but more relaxing.

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