Region: tropical Africa, Nigeria to southern Sudan, Kenya, South Africa.
Content: essential oils, thymol, carvacrol, thymyl acetate, carvacryl acetate, p-cymene, γ-terpinene.
Use: medicinal; leaves, very aromatic, to flavour soup; for soap; essential oil of potential value in perfumery.
BotanyHerb; succulent; annual; 20 to 50 cm tall.
http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Aeollanthus+suaveolens.https://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/biology/prelude/view_mu?id=563452