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Warm-season annual · same growing culture as sweet basil

Tulsi (Holy Basil)

Ocimum tenuiflorum

Grown exactly like sweet basil, but — unlike sweet basil — doesn't turn bitter once it flowers, so there's no need to fight the plant to keep it productive.

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