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Aloysia citrodora, lemon verbena, is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family Verbenaceae, native to South America. Other common names include lemon beebrush . [ 2 ] It was brought to Europe by the Spanish and the Portuguese in the 17th century and cultivated for its oil.
Verbena (/ v ər ˈ b iː n ə /), [3] also known as vervain or verveine, is a genus in the family Verbenaceae.It contains about 150 species of annual and perennial herbaceous or semi-woody flowering plants.
Aloysia is a genus of flowering plants in the verbena family, Verbenaceae.They are known generally as beebrushes. [2] They are native to the Americas, where they are distributed in temperate climates, as well as in subtropical and desert climates. [3]
Inca Kola (also known as "Golden Kola" in international advertising) [1] is a soft drink that was created in Peru in 1935 by British immigrant Joseph Robinson Lindley. [2] The soda has a sweet, fruity flavor that somewhat resembles its main ingredient, lemon verbena (not to be confused with lemongrass, both of which can be known as hierbaluisa in Spanish).
Lemon balm (Melissa officinalis) Lemon ironbark (Eucalyptus staigeriana) Lemon myrtle (Backhousia citriodora) Lemon verbena (Lippia citriodora) Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus, C. flexuosus, and other Cymbopogon spp.) Leptotes bicolor (Paraguay and southern Brazil) Lesser calamint (Calamintha nepeta), nipitella, nepitella
Backhousia citriodora, commonly known as lemon myrtle, lemon scented myrtle or lemon scented ironwood, is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is native to the subtropical rainforests of central and south-eastern Queensland , Australia , with a natural distribution from Mackay to Brisbane.
The Verbenaceae (/ ˌ v ɜːr b ə ˈ n eɪ s i. iː / VUR-bə-NAY-see-ee), the verbena family or vervain family, is a family of mainly tropical flowering plants. It contains trees, shrubs, and herbs notable for heads, spikes, or clusters of small flowers, many of which have an aromatic smell. [2] The family Verbenaceae includes 32 genera and ...
Lemon verbena (aloysia citrodora), native to Peru, was introduced in France in 1785, and by the age of 26, Rumillet had developed the concept of a verbena-based liqueur. In Lyon he met his wife, Eulalie Charretier, and in 1859 they moved to his wife's district, the Velay , where he set up a distillery in Espaly-Saint-Marcel .