To encourage a bushy plant, cut the tip of the top, insert into the soil and instantly, you have another plant as the cutting will grow within days. The Indian Borage ideally should be grown in a semi-shaded and moist location as the leaves will remain a beautiful jade-green colour.

The leaves are often added to teas and salads, and the flowers have been added to wine ( Borage has had a reputation to give one courage since Roman times ).

Borage is also traditionally used as a garnish in the Pimms Cup cocktail, but is sometimes replaced by a long sliver of cucumber peel if not available.

Boraginaceae, the Borage or Forget-me-not family, include a variety of shrubs, trees, and herbs, totaling about 2, 000 species in 146 genera found worldwide.

Other toxicologic causes of veno-occlusive disease include plant & herbal sources of pyrrolizidine alkaloids such as Borage, Boneset, Coltsfoot, T ' u-san-chi, Comfrey, Heliotrope ( sunflower seeds ), Gordolobo, Germander, and Chaparral.

Borage, ( Borago officinalis ), also known as a starflower, is an annual herb originating in Syria, but naturalized throughout the Mediterranean region, as well as Asia Minor, Europe, North Africa, and South America.

Borage production does include use as either a fresh vegetable or a dried herb.

Borage boiled and sautéed with garlic, served with potatoes.

Borage is sometimes indicated to alleviate and heal colds, bronchitis, and respiratory infections, and in general for its anti-inflammatory and balsamic properties.

Borage is used in companion planting.

* Bennett, M. ( 2003 ) Pulmonarias and the Borage Family.

The Indian Borage is very commonly grown as a potted plant.

The Indian Borage is a fast growing plant.

* Bennett, M. ( 2003 ) Pulmonarias & the Borage Family.

* Bennet, M. ( 2003 ) & the Borage Family ISBN 0-7134-8732-1

I have no picture in my mind of the garden as a whole -- that I could not see -- but certain aspects of certain corners linger in the memory: wind-blown, frost-bitten, white chrysanthemums beneath a window, with their brittle brown leaves and their sharp scent of November ; ;

Secondly, the VA physician knows that when the patient leaves the hospital, he is no longer going to have a chance to visit his patient.

When they have 4 to 6 leaves and are thrifty little plants, it's time to set them out where they are to remain.

She whirled and faced him, roaring terribly, and Ulyate, watching through the leaves, could not understand why she did not charge and obliterate him, because he wouldn't have much of a chance of getting away, in that thick growth, but she seemed just a trace uncertain ; ;

Then the monk praised Yang Shan saying: `` I have come over to China in order to worship Manjucri, and met unexpectedly with Minor Shakya '', and after giving the master some palm leaves he brought from India, went back through the air.

Almost all species have a tight cluster of leaves ( a rosette ), either at the base of the plant or at the end of a more-or-less woody stem ; the leaves are less often produced along the stem.

Almost all species have a tight cluster of leaves ( a rosette ) at the base of the plant or, in the tree-forming species, at the end of a woody stem.

The leaves have entire margins but disintegrate into fibres at the apex.

Many species have an erect woody stem which is covered with persistent dried leaves unless there have been fires, topped by a crown of long thin leaves.

Vegetation may be totally submersed, have floating leaves, or protrude from the water.

A number of species have come to be considered invasive, including, most notably in North America, dandelion, which was originally introduced by European settlers who used the young leaves as a salad green.

Also, coca leaves have been used by South American Indians since ancient times.

This leaves those opposed to instrumental music in worship with the understanding that if God wanted instrumental music in New Testament worship, he would have commanded not just singing, but singing and playing like he did in the Old Testament.

After folio 9 verso some leaves are missing which should have contained Antelope ( Antalops ), Unicorn ( Unicornis ), Lynx ( Lynx ), Griffin ( Gryps ) and part of Elephant ( Elephans ).

After folio 15 verso some leaves are missing which should have contained Crocodile ( Crocodilus ), Manticore ( Mantichora ) and part of Parandrus ( Parandrus ).

After folio 21 verso two leaves are missing which should have contained Ox ( Bos ), Camel ( Camelus ), Dromedary ( Dromedarius ), Ass ( Asinus ), Onager ( Onager ) and part of Horse ( Equus ).

If eaten whole, bay leaves are pungent and have a sharp, bitter taste.

In Indian and Pakistani cuisine, bay leaves are sometimes used in place of Indian bay leaf, although they have a different flavor.

Bay leaves have been used in entomology as the active ingredient in killing jars.

In the Middle Ages, bay leaves were believed to induce abortions and to have many magical qualities.

Bay leaves and berries have been used for their astringent, carminative, diaphoretic, digestive, diuretic, emetic and stomachic properties.

Makizushi is generally wrapped in nori ( seaweed ), but is occasionally wrapped in a thin omelette, soy paper, cucumber, or shiso ( perilla ) leaves.

Turkish meze often consist of beyaz peynir ( literally " white cheese "), kavun ( sliced ripe melon ), acılı ezme ( hot pepper paste often with walnuts ), haydari ( thick strained yoghurt like the Levantine labne ), patlıcan salatası ( cold aubergine salad ), beyin salatası ( brain salad ), kalamar ( calamari or squid ), enginar ( artichokes ), cacık ( yoghurt with cucumber and garlic ), pilaki ( various foods cooked in a special sauce ), dolma or sarma ( rice-stuffed vine leaves or other stuffed vegetables, such as bell peppers ), and köfte ( meatballs ).

Traditionally, this comes as a platter of food wrapped in banana leaves, with cucumber slices, small fried anchovies ( ikan bilis ), roasted peanuts, hard boiled egg, and hot spicy sauce ( sambal ) at its core.

The garnishing comprises slices of onion, beansprouts ( taugeh ), mint leaves, Vietnamese coriander or ' daun kesum ', cucumber and pickled white radish.

The Vishukkani consists of a ritual arrangement of auspicious articles like raw rice, fresh lemon, golden cucumber, betel leaves, arecanut, metal mirror, yellow flowers konna ( Cassia fistula ), and a holy text and coins, in a bell metal vessel called uruli in the puja room of the house.

The leaves and flowers were originally used in Pimms before it was replaced by mint or cucumber peel.

Accompanying vegetables include fresh cucumber slices, cilantro ( leaves of the coriander plant ) and pickled carrots and daikon in shredded form.

A well-known Sundanese dish is lalapan, which consists only of raw vegetables, such as papaya leaves, cucumber, eggplant, and bitter melon.

# Slice cucumber, cut string beans into 3 cm pieces, and chop cabbage leaves into pieces.

Borago ( Bo-rá-go ), common name borage, is a genus of two species of herbs with large, hairy leaves that taste mildly of cucumber, and star-shaped purple-blue flowers which are prized for their flavour.

The fruit has a big cavity and thin fruit walls, and thus forms a pouch that is conveniently filled with other food stuffs, hence its name " pepino de rellenar " in the Andes, meaning the " filling cucumber ". The young shoots and leaves may also be eaten as greens.

* Nasi lemak, rice steamed in coconut milk, usually served with omelette, anchovies ( ikan bilis ), peanuts, cucumber, sambal, and sometimes fried chicken or otak-otak that traditionally is wrapped in banana leaves to enhance flavor, but now is commonly seen wrapped in brown wax paper

In the summer, the usual salad is of celery leaves and stalks, parsley, coriander leaves, tomatoes, and cucumber.

It is used as an ingredient in both salads and dressings, having a flavor described as " light cucumber " and is considered interchangeable with mint leaves in some recipes, depending on the intended effect.