Lippia scaberrima - Eucalyptus Verbena

Description

• Verbenaceae
• South Africa
• H 1.5m x L 0.6mZ9
• Evergreen shrub that can be deciduous in the European latitudes
• One rooted plant

Details

Beukesbossie in Afrikaans. Plant with aromatic foliage evoking the smell of eucalyptus and lavender. Source of essential oil (containing limonene, pinene, camphene, sabinene, myrcene, phellandrene, terpinene, 1,8-cineole, linalool, camphor, endo-borneol, terpineol, and carveol). It is a plant of little aesthetic interest, but traditionally used by the Zulus as medicinal plant : Antifungal, Antimicrobial, Febrifuge, Stomachic, and Tonic. Delicious herb teas can be prepared with it. The plant is also useful against mosquitoes. Rarely found in nursery catalogs, another of collection verbenas.