Ocimum Tenuiflorum - Erect Subshrub, Green And Purple Leaves, Highly Aromatic With Elongate Purplish Flowers

We are the popular supplier and trader of Ocimum Tenuiflorum in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India. Ocimum tenuiflorum, also known as Ocimum sanctum, holy basil, or tulasi or tulsi (also sometimes spelled thulasi), is an aromatic plant in the family Lamiaceae which is native to the Indian subcontinent and widespread as a cultivated plant throughout the Southeast Asian tropics. It is an erect, many-branched subshrub, 30a 60 cm (12a 24 in) tall with hairy stems and simple phyllotaxic green or purple leaves that are strongly scented. Leaves have petioles and are ovate, up to 5 cm (2.0 in) long, usually slightly toothed. The flowers are purplish in elongate racemes in close whorls. The two main morphotypes cultivated in India and Nepal are green-leaved (Sri or Lakshmi tulasi) and purple-leaved (Krishna tulasi).