Common oregano seeds

The plant is a small scrubby bush about 45 cm high , stems , often take on a reddish hue , branching at the top and tend to bare; into the lower parts . The leaves emerge opposite, oval and between 2-5 cm wide , with entire or slightly toothed edges and hairs on the underside. The tiny flowers, white or red, born in highly branched inflorescences crowded terminals are under tiny reddish leaflets .

The whole plant has small glands where the aromatic essence , lemon yellow , comprising a estearopteno and two types of phenols, as majority carvacrol and thymol smaller proportion is contained. The roots and stems contain stachyose tannic substances .

Sowing

In the spring seat 30 cm rinse away.

Harvest

When the appearance of the first flowers were observed in June-September .