Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
1,234 Pot Marjoram Leaf Food The leaves are used as a flavouring for salad dressings, vegetables and legumes and are best added in the final stages of cooking. A strong thyme-like aroma, the leaves are used as a substitute for oregano or marjoram, but they are inferior in flavour. 8,411
1,235 Pot Marjoram Leaf Beverages A herb tea is made from the leaves. 8,411
1,236 Leucaena Leaf Feed (Forage/Fodder) Foliage is fed to ruminant animals as browse or by cut-and-carry methods and mixed with other green fodders; it is milled as a supplement for poultry feed and pelleted for export. 8,410
1,237 Pot Marjoram Leaf Medicinal The leaves and flowering stems are antiseptic, antispasmodic, carminative, cholagogue, diaphoretic, emmenagogue, expectorant, stimulant, stomachic and mildly tonic. 8,411
1,238 Leucaena Leaf Industrial Wood is harvested used in industries such as ceramics. Increasing use is made of the wood for posts and props, in chipboard and plywood manufacture, for paper pulp, and for furniture and parquet flooring. 8,410
1,239 Pot Marjoram Extract (oil) Food An essential oil from the leaves is used as a food flavouring and in perfumery. 8,411
1,240 Leucaena Leaf Food In Asia people eat the young green shoots before the leaflets unfold. 8,410
1,241 Leucaena Seed Food In the Americas, the green seeds are eaten. In Indonesia the mature seeds are eaten, either raw, cooked or mixed with other ingredients, sometimes after fermentation as a substitute for soyabean, or added to coffee after roasting. 8,410
1,242 Leucaena Pod Food Young pods are eaten raw or cooked. 8,410
1,243 Leucaena Seed Ornamental The dried seeds are widely used for ornamentation. 8,410
1,244 Pot Marjoram Leaf Industrial The leaves and flowering stems are added to pot-pourri and scented articles. 8,411
1,245 Rosemary Leaf Food The fresh or dried leaves are excellent flavouring agents in vegetables, meat (particularly lamb, veal and roasted chicken), sauces, stews, herbal butters, cream soups, fruit salads, jams, biscuits and bread. 8,413
1,246 Rosemary Extract (oil) Food Rosemary oil, distilled from the flowering tops and leaves, is used to season processed foods. 8,413
1,247 Rosemary Extract (oil) Industrial Rosemary oil, distilled from the flowering tops and leaves, is used to season processed foods, but for the most part it is employed in perfumes, in scenting soaps, detergents, household sprays and other related technical products. It finds application in denaturing alcohol and is popular in aromatherapy. 8,413
1,248 Rosemary Whole Ornamental Rosemary is very popular as an ornamental plant used as a ground cover, hedge or shrub and is even transformed by hobbyists into bonsai or planted in hanging baskets. The leaves and flowers can be carefully dried and sold in elegant sachets and potpourris. For the last 1000 years in Europe, rosemary has been a symbol of happiness, fidelity and love, and a wedding and funeral flower. 8,413
1,249 Rosemary Whole Medicinal Flowering tops and leaves are considered carminative, diaphoretic, diuretic, aperient, emmenagogue, stimulant, stomachic and astringent. Rosemary also serves as a household remedy for headaches, bruises, colds, nervous tension, asthma, baldness and sore throat. In the Philippines, an infusion of the leaves is used as an eyewash for slight catarrhal conjunctivitis, as vapour baths for rheumatism, paralysis and incipient catarrhs, and to bathe women in puerperal state. 8,413
1,250 Moringa Leaf Food Young leaves and shoots - raw or cooked. Added to salads, cooked as a potherb and added to soups and curries. 8,414
1,251 Moringa Flower Food Flowers - raw or cooked. Added to salads, cooked as a potherb and added to soups and curries. They can also be used to make a tea. 8,414
1,252 Moringa Pod Food The long, bean-like pods are used in soups and curries, or made into pickles. The young pods are said to have a taste reminiscent of asparagus and can be eaten raw. 8,414
1,253 Moringa Seed Food The immature seeds are eaten like peas. A sweet flavour. Mature seeds, when roasted or fried, are said to resemble peanuts in flavour. 8,414