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leaves- kangkong leaves, malungay ,gabi leaves camote tops
Both the flowering tops and the leaves of the catnip plant are used for medicinal purposes. Catnip is harvested in the summer and fall, and dried for medicinal use.
Yes. Fresh or dried leaves are used as a tarragon substitute for flavoring soups, sauces etc; and a tea is brewed using the dried leaves and flowering tops.
This depends massively on the type of Cannabis we are refering too. While the plant is alive it is green due to the chlorophyll as is most vegetation, although the part for medical or recreational is the flowers of the female plant which can very from white through to deep purples, reds and oranges which form around the tops of large stems. Dried this is generally of a dark green nature but flushed with the generally reds and rusts but can vary from near white to deep purples depending on the maturity of the dried plant. Processed cannabis (hashish) is generally an earthy to sandy coloured block this could be thick and sticky through to solid block that crumbles when heat is added. Green blocks are occassionaly seen whichb is basically highly compressed dried vegetation.
no Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) is the active chemical in cannabis and is one of the oldest hallucinogenic drugs known. There is evidence that cannabis extracts were used by the Chinese as a herbal remedy since the first century AD. Cannabis comes from the flowering tops and leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa (shown in the picture on the right). For centuries this plant has been widely cultivated around the world for its fibres, and indeed the word canvas, which is a material made from woven hemp fibres, takes its name from cannabis. However, cannabis is more commonly known as the source of the marijuana drug, although the word marijuana applies both to the whole plant, and to the resin from it (although this is sometimes also called hashish
Yes, they are a bush type plant and only the tops are cut for the tea leaves.
The leaves may be dying, which is natural. If the leaves are exposed to extreme sunlight, it may be burning. If this is so, allow the plant less extreme light. It depends upon the species; oreophila goes into dormancy relatively early.
he eats the leaves for the tree tops
You can find chloroplasts throughout a plant, but the cells with the most chloroplasts are in the leaves. The root cells have the least chloroplasts, and their chloroplasts are also the least active, having no activity at all.
They can be harvested when the tops of the leaves start to die off.
TLC in the beginning. Once the roots are established, allow the cane to grow branches, and the tops to grow leaves. You can gently put a stick in the ground as support for the cane. It should take two years until the plant is ready to produce fruits.
A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis saltiva), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. See Bhang, and Ganja.