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Cymbopogon citriodora, East Indian Lemongrass

Family: Poaceae
Genus: Cymbopogon

 

Typical grass like magenta flowers. Flowers only in the tropics or under protection. Lemon scented, linear, grey/green leaves up to 90cm in length. Culinary; both the culms (stems) and leaves are used in eastern food and for making tisanes.

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East Indian Lemongrass can be seen at the herb farm in Jekka’s Herbetum and is available to buy as both herb plants and online as herb seeds.

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This sweetly-scented grass has been used traditionally in its native India and Sri Lanka to produce a relaxing tea used to calm and relieve the cramping and colic associated with digestive problems. In India it has also been used as a topical skin application to treat fungal infections such as ringworm.

In the Caribbean it is seen as a herb for lowering fevers or used in a warm poultice to ease painful joints in arthritis.