Food you can grow in Houston, in pots, in zone 9b.
Real plants, real harvests, learning as I go. Short, sourced plant pages from my container food forest.
Across all 333 plants on my list, food and ornamental.
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Brown Select Satsuma
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Callie Kumquat
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Citrus Mitis Calamondin
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Clementine Mandarin
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Eureka Variegated Pink Lemon
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Giant Green Finger Lime
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Hamlin LA Sweet Orange
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Lemon Drop Mangosteen
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Lisbon Lemon
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Meyer Lemon
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Miho Satsuma
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Owari Satsuma
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Page Mandarin
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Persian Lime
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Red Finger Lime Tree
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Sunburst Tangerine
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Thornless Key Lime
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Valencia Orange
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Washington Naval Orange
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White Pummelo Grapefruit
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Anna Apple
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Dorsett Golden Apple
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EIN Shemer Apple
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Florida Prince Peach
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Floridahome Pear
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Hass Avocado
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Joey Avocado
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Keiffer Pear
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Methley Plum
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Mexicola Grande Avocado
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Pineapple Pear
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Pink Lady Apple
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Plumbago zeylanica (Ceylon Leadwort / Chitrak)
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Santa Rosa Plum
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Scarlet Beauty Plum
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Sunraycer Nectarines
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Tropic Snow Peach
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Atemoya Gefner
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Barbados Cherry
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Black Sapote
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Blackberry Jam Fruit Tree
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Brown Turkey Fig
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Caqui Fuyu Persimmons
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Carrie Mango
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Dwarf Wonderful Pomegranate
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Grumichama
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Higo Celeste Fig
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Jaboticaba
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Jack fruit
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Kohala Longan
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Little Missy Dwarf Fig
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Loquat
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Miracle Fruit
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Pakistani Mulberry
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Papaya
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Peanut butter fruit tree
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Pickering Mango
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Pineapple Guava (Feijoa)
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Pink Guava
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Pitangatuba 'Big Elongated Fruit' Star Plant
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Psidium Cattleyanum Cherry Guava
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Psidium Guava
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Purple Possum Passion Fruit
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Red Hybrid Jaboticaba (Plinia) precoce
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Red Pinapple
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Sherbet Berry
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Strawberry Tree
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Sweetheart Lychee
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Tamarind Tree
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Waimanalo Dwarf Solo Papaya
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White Jade Pineapple
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Wonderful Pomegranate
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Yellow Dragon Fruit
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Ziziphus Jujuba (Chinese Date)
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Arbequina Olive
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Brightwell Blueberry
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Caddo BlackBerry
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Carlos Muscadine Grape
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Concord Blue Grape
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Cucamelon / Mexican Sour Gherkin
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Live Veldt Grape Plant (Pirandai / Adamant Creeper)
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Mahonia aquifolium (Oregon Grape Holly / Barberry)
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Olea Europaea Dwarf Olive
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Phoenix Tears goji berry
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Pink lemonade Blueberry
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Premier Blueberry
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Red Chokeberry
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Strawberry Fresca
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Strawberry Mignonette
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Super Sweet Everbearing Strawberry
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Sweet Scarlet' or 'Red Gem' Goumi Berry
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TifBlue Blueberry
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Tomuri Kiwi (Male)
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Vincent Kiwi (Female)
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Anaheim Chili Pepper
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Bell Peppers
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Bhut Jolokia / Ghost Pepper
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Biquinho
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Black cherry tomatoes
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Butternut Squash
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California Wonder Bell Pepper
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Cayenne Hot Pepper
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Cherry Bomb / Satan's Kiss
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Chili De Arbol Hot Pepper
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Craig’s Grande Jalapeño
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Durango Hot Pepper
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Early Girl Plus Tomato
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Early Jalapeño
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Eggplant 'Baby Jack’
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Fresno Pepper
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Giant Marconi Peppers
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Green globe artichoke
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Guajillo / Mirasol
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Gypsy Mini Bell Pepper
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Heatmaster Tomatoes
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Homemade Pickles Cucumber
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Hot Banana Hungarian Wax
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Italian Red Marconi
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Jalepeno Gigante II
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Jambalaya Okra
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Jimmy Nardello
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Luffa
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Mammoth Jalepeno
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Orange Habenero Pepper
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Pepperoncini
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Pequin Chili Pepper
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Poblano Ancho Hot Peppers
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Scotch Bonnet Yellow Pepper
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Serrano Hot Peppers
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Shishito Sweet Pepper
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Smokin’ Ed’s Carolina Reaper
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Summer Set Tomato
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Sweet 100 Tomato
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Sweet Banana Pepper
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Sweet Peppers
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Sweet Red Pepper Pillar
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Tabasco Hot Peppers
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Tepin Chili Pepper
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Toma Verde' Tomatillo (x2)
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Tomatoes (General)
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Tromboncino Squash
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Zucchini
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Aspabroc Baby Broccoli
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Auntie Lillies South Sea Salad Bele Tree
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Beauregard Sweet Potato
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Bele / Sunset Hibiscus cultivars
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Bun Long' (Betel Nut Taro)
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Burpee 'Goldrush' Bush Bean
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Canna Indica arrowroot
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Carrot
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Cassava Yuka
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Cauliflower
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Chaya
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Chief Kubo "Salad Tree"
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Chives Onion
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Collards
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Collards Georgia
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Curly Kale
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Duckweed
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Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage
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Early Round Dutch Cabbage
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Egyptian Walking Onion
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Fenugreek / Methi
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French Sorrel
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Green Magic Broccoli
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Hawaiian PoiTaros ('Maui Lehua' or 'Moi')
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Kale ('Dwarf Blue Curled')
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Katuk “Sweet Leaf”
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Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean
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Kiko's Crump South Sea "Salad Tree"
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Lacinato Kale
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Lettuce
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Longevity Spinach
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Malabar Red Stem Spinach
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Malanga / Yautía
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Moringa
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Mustard Greens
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Okinawa Spinach
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Okinawa Sweet Potato
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Pak Choi
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Pea
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Purple Tree Collard
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Purslane
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Red Amaranth (Amaranthus spp
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Romaine Leaf Lettuce
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Sissoo Spinach Brazilian Spinach
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Spinach
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Sunchoke Tubers
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Turkish Rocket/sea kale
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UC157 asparagus
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Water Chestnut
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Watercress
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Wild Rocket / Perennial Arugula
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Yardlong / Asparagus Beans
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Allspice
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Anise Hyssop
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Asian Basil Tower
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Bay Leaf
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Blue Butterfly Pea Tea
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Bouquet' Dill
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Cardamom Ginger
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Cat grass Oats
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Cat Thyme
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Catnip
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Chamomile
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Chives Garlic
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Chocolate Mint
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Coffee
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Cuban Oregano
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Culantro
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Curcuma caesia (Black Turmeric)
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Curry Leaf Plant Murraya Koenigii
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English Thyme
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Epazote
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Fennel
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Fernleaf Dill
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Galangal Thai Ginger
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Garden Sage
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Green Tea
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Hot and Spicy Oregano
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Huacatay Peruvian Black Mint
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Lemon Balm
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Lemon Basil
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Lemon grass
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Lemon Thyme
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Lovage
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Mexican bay leaf
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Mexican Oregano
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Mexican pepper leaf Hoja Santa
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Mexican Tarragon
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Mint
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Mojito Mint
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Pandan
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Parsley
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Pineapple Sage (Salvia elegans)
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Purple Sage
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Roselle Hibiscus
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Saffron Crocus 10 Bulbs - Crocus Sativus
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Salvia lavandulifolia (Spanish Sage)
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Salvia miltiorrhiza (Danshen / Red Sage
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Shiso / Perilla
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Silverado Sage
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Society Garlic
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Spanish spreading Rosemary
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Stevia
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Stokes Dwarf Yaupon Holly
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Sweet Marjoram
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Szechuan Pepper
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True CinnamonTree. True Ceylon Cinnamon
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True Cumin
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Tulsi / Holy Basil
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Turmeric / Tumeric
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Variegated Cuban Oregano
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Vietnamese Cilantro
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Yaupon Holly
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Yerba Mate
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Agrimonia eupatoria (Agrimony
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Aloe Arborescens Succulent – Krantz Candelabra Tree Aloe Plant
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American ginseng (Panax quinquefolium
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Andrographis paniculata (King of Bitters / Kalmegh)
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Artemisia annua (Sweet Annie / Sweet Wormwood)
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Ashwagandha
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Asparagus racemosus (Shatavari)
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Astragalus membranaceus (Huang Qi
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Bacopa monnieri (Brahmi)
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Bocking 14 Comfrey
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Calendula
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Cats claw
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Celastrus paniculatus
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Climbing aloe
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Clinacanthus nutans (Sabah Snake Grass)
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Comfrey (Symphytum officinale)
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Common Mullein (Verbascum thapsus)
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Common Yarrow
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Crataegus spp. (Hawthorn / Mayhaw
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Eleuthero
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Feverfew (Tanacetum parthenium
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Ginkgo biloba (Ginkgo Tree)
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Gotu Kola
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Gynostemma / Jiaogulan
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Hericium erinaceus (Lion's Mane)
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Hypericum perforatum (St. John's Wort
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Insulin Plant
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Live Mudakathan Keerai Plant, Balloon Vine, Cardiospermum Halicacabum, (Creeper)
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Marshmallow (Althaea)
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Medicinal Kalanchoe (Kalanchoe pinnata)
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Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)
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Passiflora incarnata (Maypop / Native Passionflower)
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Polygala tenuifolia (Yuan Zhi / Chinese Senega)
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Rue
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Self Heal (Prunella vulgaris)
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Sida cordifolia or Sida acuta (Bala)
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Silene undulata
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Skullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora
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Toothache Plant (Acmella oleracea)
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Vitex agnus-castus (Chaste Tree / Monk's Pepper)
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White Horehound
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White Willow (Salix alba)
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Wood Betony (Stachys officinalis
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Wormwood
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