Tanacetum balsamita 100+ PCS fresh seeds, Costmary seeds, Alecost, Balsam herb, Bible leaf, Mint geranium, Herb seeds, Organic seeds

Tanacetum balsamita fresh seeds, Costmary seeds, Alecost, Balsam herb, Bible leaf, Mint geranium, Herb seeds, Organic seeds (lat. Tanacetum balsamita).

A species of perennial herbaceous plants of the genus Tansy of the Asteraceae family, or Compound flowers (Asteraceae). Balsamic tansy is a perennial herbaceous plant (shrub) with a more or less branched creeping woody rhizome.

The stems are few, erect, indistinctly ribbed, from 30 to 120 cm high (even more in favorable conditions), strongly leafy in the lower part (with a large rosette of basal leaves), branched in the upper part.

The leaves are whole, oval or elliptical, finely toothed, grayish-green or dull green in color, finely pubescent and slightly velvety to the touch. The lower leaves are petiolate, the upper ones are sessile, smaller. The leaves of wild plants are usually less fragrant than those of the garden form.

Inflorescences are baskets (of 10-60 flowers), small, up to 10 mm in diameter, on relatively short petioles, collected at the top of the stem in a rather dense corymbose inflorescence. All the flowers in the basket are tubular, yellowish or pale yellow in color, there are no petals.

Balsamic tansy is an easy plant to cultivate. Kanuper is extremely undemanding to the quality of soils, it can be successfully grown on lands of low and medium fertility, preferably drained, on which moisture does not stagnate.

Just like for all essential oil crops, an open sunny area is preferred. Only in this way can the plant gain maximum green mass and aroma. Kanuper is very responsive to watering and applying any fertilizers during the active growing season.