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[londoner]

I am trying to identify a Cypriot herb like perennial which I believe is known as LIGANO or something similar. It smell mentholly, with green furry type foilage and short and bushy. Any ideas?

[SheldonCooper]

Any chance of a photo of said plant?

[Get Real!]

You mean this?
http://www.google.com.cy/search?q=orega ... CAcQ_AUoAQ

[GreekIslandGirl]

I know the one you mean (does look like oregano). It's really hardy, sturdy, and grows everywhere, especially up in the mountains, near the roadsides/tracks.

- I think it's some kind of Salvia.

[londoner]

Thanks Get Real - looks like the plant

Thanks GreekIsland Girl - it appears to be Origarum Vulgaris which has as far as I can determine no culinary use but is widely used by herbalists and homeopaths

[londoner]

I called it LIGANO but I think its DRIGANO and could be salvia lanigera

[londoner]

Still unsure to the plants identity - perhaps an image may help someone with identification

http://cyprusgardener.blogspot.com/2012 ... alvia.html

[wyoming cowboy]

In cypriot "louganika" there is a small round black ingredient, that kind of looks like peppercorn, usually referred to by cypriots as "shino", would anyone know the proper scientific name for it?

[SoulRose]

Still unsure to the plants identity - perhaps an image may help someone with identification

http://cyprusgardener.blogspot.com/2012 ... alvia.html

It looks like sage

[CBBB]

Email this bloke with the picture, [email protected], he is the one who writes in the Cyprus Sunday Mail about all this stuff and will definitely know what it is (providing he hasn't broken his computer again!).