30 Graines Pérille de Nankin, shiso, zisu, Perilla frutescens

Nankin's peril, Shiso, Zisu, Périlla Frutescens |

The aromatic or peril perille of Nankin (Perilla Frutescens), best known by its Japanese names Shiso and Chinese Zisu 紫 苏 / 紫 蘇, Zǐsū, " [plante] Violette which revives ", is a food plant, aromatic, medicinal and ornamental, belonging to Gender Perilla of the family of Lamiaceae1. It is cultivated and used in a large part of Asia since Antiquity and Japan, since the era Jōmon in III^e century. The Pérille de Nankin (In Latin, Perilla Frutescens Var. CRISPA), is a variety known in Japan under the name of Shiso pronounced ʃiso (紫 蘇^?).

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Scientific name : Perilla Frutescens (L.) Britton. Basionyme : described by Linné under Binôme Ocimum Frutescens L., it was then paid in gender Perilla (Etymology : diminutive of Latin Pera [besace], allusion to the shape of the fruit) by Britton.

Square section rod. Purple green leaves depending on the varieties, oval and opposite. Flowers in ears, white purple, at the end of summer. Black seeds, very small, oleifers.

This form FRUTESCENS is very similar to aojiso but it is larger (60-90 cm high, oval leaves of 7-12 × 8 cm, not tense and hairy) and much more fragrant. Cultivated for its seed oil used in shintoism and today especially as a very expensive health product. Like sesame, it is from Southeast Asia, but you should know that despite its name, the true Sesame is quite far from these plants on the botanical level, their only common point being Serve the production of a very fragrant oil. It traditionally serves to manufacture an oil used in shintoist ceremonies. It is also used in dyeing and in the manufacture of certain Japanese lacquers. Its fruits and seeds have become overpriced since the discovery of their medicinal properties.

We can sow the seeds in a soil at a temperature above 5 degrees C., the most favorable germination temperature is between 18 and 23 ° C. The seedlings can support a temperature of 1 to 2 ° C. Young plants grow slowly at low temperature. Plants have good growth of 18 to 40 ° C if they are abundantly watered. Péilla FRUTESCENS is very little tolerant of drought, it is better resistant to humidity, even with soils saturated with water, especially during the growth period. Flowering starts 80 days after germination, the most favorable flowering temperature is between 22 and 28 ° C.

The plant was introduced into Korea before Unified Silla period, it then began to be widely cultivated.

In its natural state, the yield in leaves and perillain seeds is not high. If the stem is cut approximately five centimeters above the floor in summer, a new stem grows and produces more seeds. The leaves can be harvested on the rod cut in summer, then on the new rod and its branches, throughout the summer and fall. The seeds are harvested in autumn when when they arrive at maturity. To collect Perilla seeds, the whole plant is harvested and beaten, to be able to spread the seeds for drying in the sun.

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