Plants in our backyeard and now Show us your backyard!

Yesterday I happen to post about making Moringa and ended up making Tea out of it for the first time. While going to collect the leaves, I took quite a few photos with my phone and I thought why don't I show the biodiversity to the rest of the world. Here is me showing off :)

Now, show us what you have in your backyard !

You can post what you find as comments to this post.

I will also post names for the plants if I know what they are.

I. Photo I: Cinnamon plant

II. photo II : Ginger

III. photo III: The lone Cashew nut tree - its flowering now.

IV. photo IV: Nutmeg tree. Mace is also obtained from the nutmeg tree

V. photo V: Of course, its a chillie!

VI. photo VI: Its Pepper and the Pepper is still green.

VII. photo VII: Banana plant, Tapioca, Moringa

VIII. photo VIII: Moringa - I made tea out of this !

IX. photo IX: Oh yea, Curry Leaves

X. Some flower ...

XI. photo XI : Papaya

XII. One of my favorite lil fruits .. not sure what it is called. Its sour, sweet and looks like a pumpkin!

XIII. photo XIII: Brahmi - this is Bacopa Monnieri. In northern India another plant with simlar attributes but a different shape is called as Brahmi. Both has similar medicinal value. In the South Indian Ayurveda tradition, this one is considered as Brahmi.

XIV. photo XIV : Its either an Orange plant or a Sweet Lemon (Mousambi) plant

XV. photo XV: : its a small tree with extremely sour fruits. The fruits are used for cooking, sometimes made pickle etc. Need to find the correct name in English.

XVI. photo XVI : We consume the roots and leaves of the plant. I just figured out that the name of the plant in english is Elephant Ear plant !

Now its your turn, show us what you have in your backyard to Steemit

Are you lazy to go out and shoot ? :-D