Monday 4 April 2016

MARI KOZHUNTHU IN MY HOMEYARD

I grow marikolunthu plant in my home yard. It grows healthy upto two feet. When we pluck and rub some leaves it gives an amazing aromatic fragrance.

Scientific name is Artemisia Pallens.

I gathered some information about this Marikolunthu:

This plant has its native of Tamilnadu. Karnataka, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh. This plant is a small and aromatic herb and xerophytic in nature.
In the regional languages the Marikolunthu is known as Thavanam, marikolunthu in Tamil, Thavanamu in Telugu and davana in Kannada.
It is commercially cultivated for its aromatic oil.
The flowers are small racemose panicles bearing numerous flower heads or capitula but the silky which covering down gives the appearance of foliage of grey color.
It has pinna sect and alternate leaves (the leaves divided into opposite pairs of lobes combined at the bottom gives the flower like appearance.
The most commercial by-product manufactured from Davana plant is Davana perfumery oil.
The oil is not much popular in India but famous and exported to America, France, Germany and Netherland for its aromatic perfume
Davana leaves and flowers are used to make bouquet, flower garland and flower arrangements.
Its cost is high.
The plant seeds are very small and small and tender seedlings should be taken an extra care to cultivate.
When applied to the skin, it will give different smell in different persons.



       

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15 comments:

  1. Unknown4 January 2018 at 09:14

    Ok how to plant at home
    and fertilizer to grow

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    1. Sulosundar4 January 2018 at 22:52

      no fertilizer please.
      This wonderful aromatic herb may be available any nursery. You can buy this and plant it in your home garden or balcony or pots.
      Just water it. It will grow abundantly in sunlight.
      mesmerizing aroma it has!

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    2. Taibah Lanka Enterprises8 December 2020 at 12:08

      is this Oregano plant. it looks the same for me.

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  2. Unknown4 January 2018 at 09:14

    Ok how to plant at home
    and fertilizer to grow

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  3. Unknown27 February 2019 at 15:17

    I tried growing the seeds ...They sprout and after it gives 2 leaves it's dying ....Why is it so?

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  4. Unknown27 August 2019 at 02:55

    I want marikozhundhu plant where v will get

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  5. geetha ram8 December 2019 at 08:15

    I search for Mari kolunthp in so many nursery but no way. I want the plant from where do I get the plant.

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  6. Sreekanth5 June 2020 at 09:14

    I want thisplant

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  7. Unknown14 July 2020 at 09:13

    Where i can get in Malaysia

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  8. Unknown13 November 2020 at 04:31

    This is not marikozhunthu. It is called maruvam in tamil and marjoram in English. Real marikohunthu has feathery leaves and called as davana in India. People get confused between davana (marikohunthu) and maruvam in India. Google davana or Artemisia Pallens.

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  9. cheli8 December 2021 at 08:51

    This is not davana in telugu. It's called morum. Davana is different but both r fragrance leaves

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  10. Unknown25 December 2021 at 06:44

    As I need of this plant
    Please call me / let me know your
    Site
    I Murli Guindy Chennai
    9677112936

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  11. Unknown9 January 2022 at 21:02

    Can i buy this marikolenthe plant

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  12. Usha22 February 2022 at 18:12

    Hi the scientific name is not artemisia pallens - it is origanum majorana - marjoram or marikolunthu

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