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Name	Uses	Availability
Ketumbar Jawa	It is used as a flavoring for food, in curries and also as a medicine. It is often adopted by the Chinese as substitute for coriander
Lady’s Finger (Okra)	Okra, also known as bamia, bindi, bhindi, lady's finger, and gumbo, is a member of the cotton (Mallow) family. It is used as an ingredient in many recipes and is especially popular with cooks who add it to soups, stews, and gumbos. This is because okra produces a sticky juice that works as a natural thickening agent. Okra can also be boiled, steamed, baked, grilled, microwaved, and used in stir-fries.
Laksa Plant	The plant is strongly peppery in taste and used by the Chinese to flavor “laksa” and by the Malays as a flavoring in dishes.
Lavender	Commonly used in aromatherapy for its pleasant fragrance and soothing quality, it can be found in a wide range of bath, body and personal comfort products.Used in rubbing oils for sore joints. An infusion can be used as a cold compress for headaches. Lavender bags are used for linen and Lavender is again being used in cooking, for example in ice cream and biscuits.
Lemon Balm	Fresh leaves for summer drinks and fruit cups, as tea and tisane, in jam, milk puddings, salad dressings, or as a substitute for grated lemon peel in a recipe.
Lime	This citrus fruit is use for drink and seasoning.
Marigold	Petals, in place of saffron in many recipes, especially rice dishes, soups eggs, cheese, meat casseroles, custard, puddings, cakes, salads and to make wine leaves sparingly in salads.
Miraculous Berry	A relatively tasteless berry with an amazing side-effect. After eating one miracle fruit, sour things will instantly taste sweet. Eating even the sourest of lemons, one will taste only sugary sweetness.
Mugwort	Mugwort is only occasionally used as a spice. It’s slightly bitter taste fits best to fat fish or meat; occasionally, young mugwort leaves are eaten raw as a salad.
Mulberry	Fruits can be eaten and leave are used for tea.
Musk Mallow	Whole plant can be use. Flower is used in salad. Leave and stem can be use as vegetable. It is reach in vitamin A,B and C. Leaves and roots be made into cream to relief pain and syrup for cough.
Oregano	Oregano is well known as the "pizza herb", and is widely used in Mexican and Italian cookery. Both fresh and dried material can be used. The dried herb is also used in many other processed foods such as alcoholic beverages, meat and meat products, condiments and relishes, snack foods and milk products. Origanum oil is used as a food flavor and also as a fragrance component in soaps, detergents and perfumes.
Peppermint	Young leaves and shoots in salad, roots fried in butter, leaves in soup.
Pineapple	This fruit is use for dessert or eaten raw when ripe.
Pumpkin	The fruit is prepared in a variety of ways as a vegetable or a soup. The Malays cook slices of it together with banana or sweet potato in coconut milk and sugar, called “pengat”, a sweetmeat.
Purple Ruffles Basil	Fresh leaves use with fish, meat, vegetable, dessert and sauces. The infusion of the leave is used for insect bite.
Radish	Radish probably is native from southern Asia. It has been used for medicinal purposes by the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and Chinese.Radish stimulates the appetite and the digestion. The juice of the black radish is drunk to counter gassy indigestion and constipation. Consuming radish generally results in improved digestion, but some people are sensitive to its acridity and strong action. In China, radish is eaten to relieve abdominal distention.
Rock Melon	Grown for its fruits. Its smell will indicate flavor and ripeness. The rockmelon should be ripened at room temperature.
Rocket	Arugula is mainly used as a salad green. It has an assertive, pungent, spicy, peppery, somewhat nutty flavor somewhat reminiscent of radish or horseradish.
Rue	Rue is mostly used as an ornamental plant in rock gardens and herb gardens. It has been also used as a medicine for earaches, an insect repellent, and an herb for flavoring foods. Some processed foods are flavored with rue. Some cosmetics and perfumes also contain rue.

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