FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
OCIMUM GRATISSIMUM
Hedrick, U.P. editor. 1919. Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1919 II. Albany, J.B Lyon Company, State Printers. [References Available]
is a plant of East Indies. This species is recorded as indigenous in India, the South Sea Islands and Brazil. According to Loureiro, it occurs in the kitchen gardens of Cochin China. It was cultivated in England in 1752 by a Mr. Miller. Forskal gives as the Arabic name, hobokbok. In French gardens, this plant is called basilic en arbre. Vilmoring thinks, however, that the French form may be the Ocimum suave Willd., but of this he is not certain.
