Product Review

This sale is for 100+ Holy Kaprao Basil seeds packed into airtight and water tight glass vials complete with organic cotton and silica beads for excellent long-term storage in the freezer. Use some seed this season and save the rest for next year and year after year. Seed saved this way can and usually does last decades. Ocimum sanctum is known as Tulsi or Holy Basil. Also known by the name 'Ocimum tenuiflorum', an aromatic plant in the family Lamiaceae which is native to the Indian subcontinent and widespread as a cultivated plant throughout the Southeast Asian tropics. It is an erect, many branched subshrub, 1-3' tall with hairy stems and simple phyllotaxic green or purple leaves that are strongly scented. Leaves have petioles and are ovate, up to 5 cm long, usually slightly toothed. The flowers are purplish in elongate racemes in close whorls. Tulsi is cultivated for religious and medicinal purposes, and for its essential oil. It is widely known across the Indian subcontinent as a medicinal plant and an herbal tea, commonly used in Ayurveda, and has an important role within the Vaishnava tradition of Hinduism, in which devotees perform worship involving holy basil plants or leaves. This plant is revered as an elixir of life and as such has an important place in our home garden. We use the flowering tops of these medicinal basils in teas.