Oregano Plants Plecanthrus Amboinicus Royalty-Free Stock Image

Plectranthus amboinicus is a large succulent herb, fleshy and highly aromatic, much branched, possessing short soft erect hairs, with distinctive smelling leaves. The stem is fleshy, about 30–90 cm, either with long rigid hairs or densely covered with soft, short and erect hairs, pubescent. Leaves are undivided simple, broad, egg/oval-shaped with a tapering tip ovate and very thick, they are pubescent thickly studded with hairs, with the lower surface possessing the most numerous glandular hairs, giving a frosted appearance. The taste of this leaf is pleasantly aromatic with agreeable and refreshing odour. Flowers are on a short stem shortly pedicelled, pale purplish in dense whorls at distant intervals in a long slender raceme.