HERB - sweet annie

[Sheron Buchele/Curtis Rowland]

If it grows pretty tall with an airy habit, it sounds right!  It smells
like a spicy sweet to me with subtle artimeisia over tones.  Have you
surfed for a picture to make sure?  Or take a piece into a greenhouse.  I
wouldn't take anything internally that I had just id'ed over the internet.
;-)  

I wish I had the reseeding problem, it is apparently too hot and dry here
for them to be happy in my garden.  They mostly just sulk and croak.  On
the other hand, my lavendar is covered with blooms and smells quite
intoxicating!

What I can smell over the smoke - we are close to the northernmost Colorado
wildfire.  But today is cloudy and cool so we are hoping that things get
better under control!

Baroness Leonora

At 11:12 AM 6/16/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I've got some great reference to the medicinal aspects of
>Sweet Annie (Artemisia annua) but I can't seem to find
>anything that describes the exact smell or that discusses
>much history of the plant, for some reason. Plant identification
>is one of my weakest subjects, so I was hoping someone on
>the list could help.
>
>Just to be sure, the plant I have is a highly fragrant plant
>that smells very much like Juicy Fruit gum to me. Finely
>cut foliage, not quite unlike a fern? Reseeds itself, despite
>being an annual and often becomes a weed problem, right?
>
>I love this plant. So atypical of the plants you normally
>find in an herb garden.
>
>Happy gardening,
>
>jasmine
>Iasmin de Cordoba
>iasmin at home.com
>gwalli at ptc.com
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