Basil 'Ararat'
- Product number: 332800
- Origin: South Asia
- Latin: Ocimum basilicum
This variety has a strong, sweet taste with a hint of lemon, anise, and licorice. Perfect for salads, pesto, and tomato dishes in Italian or Thai cuisine. The compact plants are graceful with glossy, green and purple leaves, often serrated and about 5 cm long. The edible flowers can (when blooming young) be regularly picked to promote good leaf growth.
Basil loves warmth and high humidity. The leaves are widely used in the preparation of soups, sauces, fish dishes, herbs, vinegar, and pickles.
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Latin: Ocimum basilicum
Dutch: Basilicum
Also known as: Bazielkruid
English: Basil
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- Flower colour: White flowers
- Origin: South Asia
- Average growth height: 30 to 60 cm
- Annual or perennial: Annual
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- Winter hardy: Not frost hardy
- Ease of cultivation: Easy
- Latin: Ocimum basilicum
- Dutch: Basil
- Also known as: Basil
- English: Basil
