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common name
Oregano
scientific name
Origanum majorana
family
origin
type
Lamiaceae
Southern Europe, Asia Minor
Perennial herbaceous plant
leafes
Leaves: with a small petiole, oval-elongated and rounded at the base. They present the entire margin or with teeth spaced apart from each other. The surface is generally glabrous.
flowers
The white-pink flowers are collected in spikes, provided with concave bracts and are hermaphroditic with entomophilous pollination especially bees and butterflies.
fruits/berries
The inflorescences are pedunculate ears of ovate shape.
height
Up to 50cm
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