Rosemary can be eaten, in Western cuisine rosemary is a frequently used spice, in steak, potatoes and other dishes, as well as baked goods are particularly often used. It has a sweet and piney odor and flavor, with a strong aroma and a bitter taste in the sweetness.

Industrial value:

Rosemary is a valuable natural spice plant that gives off a fresh odor during the growing season and has a refreshing and invigorating effect. Its stems, leaves and flowers have a pleasant fragrance, and the aromatic oil extracted from the flowers and shoots can be used to formulate air cleaners, perfumes, soaps and other cosmetic raw materials, the most famous lotion is made with rosemary, and can be used in beverages, skin care oils, hair growth agents and laundry creams.

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Morphological features of rosemary:

Shrubs, up to 2 meters high. Stem and old branches terete, cortex dark gray, irregularly longitudinal, blocky exfoliation, young branches 4-angled, densely white stellate fine tomentum.

Leaves often clustered on branches, very shortly stalked or sessile, leaf blade linear, 1-2.5 centimeters long, 1-2 millimeters wide, apex obtuse, base attenuate, entire, curling toward the abaxial surface, leathery, slightly glossy and subglabrous above, densely white stellate tomentose below.

Flowers subsessile, opposite, a few aggregated at the tips of short branches in racemes; bracts small, stipitate. Calyx ovate-campanulate, ca. 4 mm, outside densely white stellate tomentose and glandular, inside glabrous, 11-veined, 2-lipped, upper lip suborbicular, entire or with very short 3 teeth, lower lip 2-toothed, teeth ovoid-triangular.

Corolla blue-purple, less than 1 cm long, sparsely pubescent outside, glabrous inside, corolla tube slightly outstretched, limb 2-lipped, upper lip straight, 2-lobed, lobes ovoid, lower lip broad, 3-lobed, middle lobe largest, concave, downturned, margin toothed, base constricted into a stalk, lateral lobes oblong.

Stamens 2 developed, inserted below the lower lip of the corolla, with a downward denticulate filament at the middle of the filament, the locules parallel, only 1 fertile. Style slender, much exceeding stamens, apex unequally 2-lobed, lobes subulate, posterior lobes shorter. Disk flat-topped, with equal lobes. Ovary lobes alternate with disk lobes. The ovary lobes are alternate with the disk lobes.

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