Title: Lemongrass
Description: Photograph of lemongrass
Resource type: Image
Source: www.nrc-map.org
Publisher: National Research Center for Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Anana, Gujarat, India
Date: Retrieved August 29, 2006
Format: jpg; 187K;
Resource identifier: http://www.nrc-map.org/About%20Us/Research/Lemongrass.htm

A native of India and Sri Lanka, Cymbopogon citratus has tall, densely tufted, aromatic stalks of light green blades. The essential oil extracted from lemongrass leaves and shoots is used extensively in perfumery.

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