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Herbal Teas & Flowers
Lemongrass Leaf
Cymbopogon citratus
Lemongrass leaf is the blade of Cymbopogon citratus, sả chanh, a perennial grass forming clumps about a metre and a half tall from a short white or faintly purple rhizome. The blade is linear, 50 to 100 cm long and 0.5 to 2 cm wide, drooping, glaucous-green, its midrib white above and prominent beneath, margins rough — not the tight white leaf sheaths at the base, sold separately as stalk. Known only from cultivation, it is grown throughout Vietnam on hillsides, in fields and gardens, along river and pond banks. In most places it flowers rarely or not at all, so clumps are divided, not sown. Leaves are first cut six to eight months after planting, then three to six times a year, once the morning dew has dried, because wet grass ferments. They are washed and dried in the shade, not in full sun. The plant carries one to two per cent essential oil, mostly citral, smelling of lemon.
- Origin:
- Vietnam
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