Ocimum americanum also called American Basil or hoary basil, is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae (Mint Family). The plant comes from Africa, the Indian Subcontinent, China, Southeast Asia, and many places in the Americas, such as North America, Central America, and South America....
African basil is an aromatic, perennial plant that normally grows about 1-3 m tall. The plant is found growing in roadsides, wasteland, coastal scrubland, lakeshores, savannas, sub-montane forest, disturbed areas around villages and along roadsides and streams, moist and dry deciduous forests, ...
Raihan is derived from Arabic rih [ريح] or riha [ريحة] odour, fragrance and originally did not mean basil but another aromatic Mediterranean plant, myrtle. This is still so in North African Arabic (and Maltese); moreover, the word has been transferred ...