Melissa officinalis officinalis
(Common Balm)
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Melissa officinalis, a perennial herb has a distinct lemon fragrance when leaves are crushed or bruised. I grow one plant as it provides plenty of leaves for teas, and use in cooking. Use leaves in potpourris and sachet for its lemony scent.
Melissa officinalis
( All Gold Lemon Balm )
Erect, bushy perennial with wrinkled, oval, golden-yellow leaves. In summer, small, lilac-tinted, white flowers appear on irregular spikes.
Melissa officinalis L. subsp. officinalis
Common Names
balm, balm mint, bee balm, bee herb, blue balm, citronella, common balm, dropsy plant, garden balm, gentle balm, lemon balm, melissa, melissa balm, sweet balm, sweet-balm ...
#952 Melissa officinalis
Common Names: lemon balm, balm
Family: Lamiaceae/Labiatae (mint Family)
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Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis L.)
Synonyms
pharmaceutical
Folia Melissae
Albanian
Bar blete, Bari i bletÃ"s, Melisa, ErÃ"x, MilcÃ", Pselik, Spelinok
Arabic
تريجان, Øشيشة اÙ"نمÙ", ريØان اÙ"Ù"يمون ...
Melissa (Lemon Balm)
Mentha (Mint)
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Melissa officinalis
Lemon balm's quilted green leaves release a delicious lemony aroma when brushed, making it the perfect fragrant addition to plantings near patios and garden benches.
Balm, Melissa Officinalis
Culinary:
Use Balm as a seasoning to pork, lamb, chicken and fish., fruit- and vegetable salads and stewed fruit.
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Melissa officinalis
Family: Labiatae / Lamiaceae
Lemon Balm
Lemon balm is an herbaceous perennial in the mint family. Its foliage has a distinctive lemony fragrance when bruised.
Melissa officinalis
MEDICINAL: Lemon Balm is used to treat children with fever, flu, and colds. In adults, it treats colds, headaches, depression, menstrual cramps, insomnia, and nervous stomachs.
Melissa A. Bravo, National Park Service, Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites, Hyde Park, NY.
EDITOR:
Jil M. Swearingen, National Park Service, National Capital Region, Natural Resources and Science, Center for Urban Ecology, Washington, DC.
Melissa, Lemon Balm [2]
Melissa officinalis
Western USA - Prolonged bloom of 45 - 50 days generally in summer, but with repeat blooming in California. Delicate honey with very light, pinkish color.
hi melissa - water when the soil feels dry, and water from beneath, ie into the dish your plant sits in but never more than a couple of centimetres depth of water. this way you deliver a fixed dose and encourage deep roots.
Synonymy: Melissaceae Berchtold & J. Presl, Stachydaceae Döll
And 10 genera unassigned, including Callicarpa (140: hairs branched/stellate; flowers polysymmetric, 4-5(-7)merous), Tectona (4)...
Common Balm (Melissa) - M. officinalis is a well-known old garden plant, 2 to 3 feet high, emitting a grateful odour when bruised. It may be naturalised in any soil. Division. Europe.
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Lemon balm - Melissa officinalis (in the Lamiaceae or Mint family)
Part used: Flowering herb.
Taste/Smell: Slightly lemon smell and taste, sweet, sour, aromatic.
April 25,1998 Melissa wrote: I am writing concerning a shamrock plant I received as a gift recently. Every day it has leaves that have turned completly yellow. I've been removing these leaves, but it has continued to happen.
Lemon Balm Melissa officinalis (Perennial) Culinary. Pleasent lemon flavor and fragrence makes it pleasant in tea, punches and in fruit salad. Good for potpourri. Known in European history as the "Elixor of Life.
Photo/Illustration: Melissa Lucas
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Some historians speculate that the ancient Greek maenadic virgin cult of Melissai ("Bees"), who gave prophesies in the manner of entranced sibyls, induced their own trances by means of drunkenness on mead made from mad honey.
Wild lupine, with its beautiful spikes of blue flowers, hosts the federally endangered Karner blue butterfly (Lycaeides melissa samuelis). Females lay eggs on lupine leaves and blossoms, which become food for the slug-shaped larvae.
Bee Balm - name for several herbs, especially Melissa officinalis and Monarda didyma, both typical perennials of the family Labiatae (mint family) named for their fragrance, attractive to bees and ...
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A member of the mint family, the herb known as Lemon Balm is also called Sweet Melissa. This plant is a hardy perennial herb, important in bee pollination.
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Combinations: Filipendula combines well with Althaea and Melissa in treatment of gastric conditions and with Ballota in vomiting.
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---Medicinal Action and Uses---Febrifuge, sedative. The uses of Lemon Verbena are similar to those of mint, orange flowers, or melissa, as a stomachic and antispasmodic in dyspepsia, indigestion and flatulence, stimulating skin and stomach.
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