List of culinary herbs and spices

A

• Aidan fruit / Aridan / prekese / uyayak / osakrisa / dawo
• Ajwain, carom seeds / thymol seeds / bishop's weed — Pakistan, South Asia, India, Afghanistan, Iran, Egypt, Eritrea & Ethiopia
• Alexanders
• Alkanet / dyer's alkanet — for red color
• Alligator pepper / hepper pepper / mbongochobi, mbongo spice — West Africa
• Allspice
• Angelica
• *Angelica / garden angelica / Norwegian angelica / wild celery
• *Bai zhi / Dahurian angelica
• Anise
• *Aniseed / anise / anix
• *Aniseed myrtle — Australia
• *Star anise / badian — China
• Annatto
• Artemisia
• *Absinthe / common wormwood
• *Tarragon / estragon
• Asafoetida / hing
• Avens
• *Wood avens / Herb bennet / St Benedict's herb
• Avocado leaf

  B

• Barberry
• Basil
• *African basil / scent leaf
• *Holy basil
• *Lemon Basil
• *Sweet Basil / great basil
• *Thai basil
• Bay leaf
• *Bay leaf
• *Indian bay leaf / tejpat / malabathrum
• *Indonesian bay leaf / Indonesian laurel / Salam leaf / daun salam
• *Mexican bay leaf / laurél
• *West Indian bay leaf
• Boldo
• Borage

  C

• California bay laurel
• Calabash nutmeg / African Calabash nutmeg / ehuru / Jamaican nutmeg / ariwo
• Capers
• *Caper
• *Caperberry
• Caraway
• Cardamom
• *Black cardamom / badi ilaichi — India, Pakistan
• *Chinese black cardamom / Cao guo — China
• *Chinese white cardamom / bai dou kou — China
• *Green cardamom — India
• Celery
• *Celery leaf
• *Celery seed
• Chervil
• Chicory
• Chili pepper / chilli / chile
• *Cayenne pepper / Cayenne chili
• *Jalapeño
• *New Mexico chile — 'New Mexico Group': Hatch, Anaheim, Big Jim, Chimayó, and Sandia, and other pepper cultivars.
• *Paprika
• Chironji / charoli nut
• Chives
• Cicely / sweet cicely
• Cinnamon
• *Cassia / Chinese cinnamon
• *Cinnamon / Ceylon cinnamon / true cinnamon
• *Indonesian cinnamon
• *Cinnamon myrtle — Australia
• *Vietnamese / Saigon cinnamon
• *White cinnamon — Caribbean
• Clary / clary sage
• Clove
• Coriander
• *Coriander leaf / coriander greens / cilantro / Chinese parsley
• *Coriander seed
• *Vietnamese coriander
• Costmary
• Cubeb pepper
• Culangot / culantro / long coriander / recao
• Cumin
• *Black cumin / Kala zeera / kala jira — South Asia
• *Cumin / white cumin — South Asia
• Curry leaf
• Curry plant
• ''Cyperus articulatus''

  D

• Dill
• *Dill seed
• *Dill weed / dill herb
• Dootsi

  E

• Elderflower
• Epazote / Jesuits' tea / Mexican tea / wormseed

  F

• Fennel
• Fenugreek
• *Fenugreek leaf / methi — India, Mediterranean, Middle East
• *Fenugreek seed / methi seed — India, Mediterranean, Middle East
• *Blue fenugreek / blue melilot
• Filé powder / gumbo filé — Creole
• Fingerroot / lesser galangal / temu kuntji / krachai / k'cheay — Java, Thailand, Cambodia
• Fish mint
• *giấp cá / fish mint, leaf — Vietnam
• *zhé ěrgēn / fish mint, rhizome — China: Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan provinces

  G

• Galangal
• *Greater galangal — Indonesia
• *Lesser galangal — Indonesia
• *Sand ginger / kencur / kentjur / shan nai / sha jiang — Java, Bali, China
• Garlic
• *Garlic
• *Garlic chives / Chinese chives / Chinese leek
• Ginger
• *Ginger
• *Torch ginger / bunga siantan — Indonesia
• Golpar / Persian hogweed — Iran
• Grains of paradise / melegueta pepper
• Grains of Selim / Kani pepper / ''uda''

  H

• Herb bennet / St Benedict's herb / wood avens
• Hoja santa / hierba santa / acuyo — Mexico
• Hops — European drinks herb: a bitter flavouring agent
• Horseradish
• Huacatay / Mexican marigold / mint marigold
• Hyssop
• *Bible hyssop / Syrian oregano / za'atar / zahtar
• *Roman hyssop / savory of Crete / pink savory / whorled savory

  J

• Jasmine flowers
• Jakhya / wild mustard
• Jalapeño
• Jimbu — Nepal
• Juniper berry — European drinks herb: an aromatic flavouring agent

  K

• Keluak / kluwak / kepayang — South-East Asia
• Kinh gioi / Vietnamese balm
• Kokum — India, a souring agent
• Korarima / Ethiopian cardamom / false cardamom — Eritrea
• Koseret leaves — Ethiopia
• Kudum Puli / Malabar tamarind
• Kutjura — Australia

  L

• Lavender
• Lemon balm
• Lemon ironbark — Australia
• Lemon myrtle — Australia
• Lemon verbena
• Lemongrass
• *Common lemongrass — South-East Asia
• *Malabar grass — South-East Asia
• Kaffir lime leaves / Makrud lime leaves — South-East Asia
• Leptotes bicolor — Paraguay and southern Brazil
• Lesser calamint / nipitella / nepitella — Italy
• Licorice / liquorice
• Lovage
• *Lovage leaves
• *Lovage seeds
• Locust beans

  M

• Mace
• Mahleb / mahalepi / St Lucie cherry
• Mallow
• *Marsh mallow
• *Musk mallow / abelmosk
• Marjoram / sweet marjoram / cultivated oregano
• Mastic
• Mint — 25 species, hundreds of varieties
• Moldavian dragonhead
• Mountain horopito / 'pepper-plant' — New Zealand
• Mustard
• *Mustard, black / mustard seed
• *Mustard, brown / mustard seed
• *Mustard, white / mustard seed
• *Mustard, yellow / mustard seed

  N

• Nigella / black onion seed / black caraway / kalonji
• Njangsa / djansang — West Africa
• Nutmeg

  O

• Oregano
• *Oregano / wild marjoram
• *Greek / Turkish oregano
• *Lebanese oregano / Syrian oregano / bible hyssop / za'atar / zahtar
• *Sweet marjoram
• *Cuban oregano
• *Mexican oregano
• Orris root

  P

• Pandan
• *Pandan flower / fragrant screw-pine / kewra
• *Pandan leaf
• Pápalo / papaloquelite — Mexico and South America
• Paprika — q.v. [|Chili]
• Paracress — Brazil
• Parsley
• *French parsley / curly parsley
• *Italian parsley / flat-leaf parsley
• *Japanese parsley
• *Stone parsley
• Passion berry / fringed rue / Tena adam
• Pennyroyal / pudding grass
• Pepper
• *Ashanti pepper / uziza / Edo [|Pepper] / Guinea cubeb
• *Pepper, black, white, and green
• *Brazilian pepper / pink pepper
• *Dorrigo pepper — Australia
• *Kani pepper / uda / Grains of Selim
• *Long pepper
• *Melegueta pepper / Grains of paradise
• *Mountain pepper / Cornish pepper leaf
• *Peruvian pepper
• *Szechuan pepper — China
• *Tasmanian pepper
• *Voatsiperifery — Madagascar
• Peppermint — q.v. [|Mint]
• Peppermint gum leaf
• Perilla
• *Korean perilla seeds / Deulkkae
• *Korean perilla leaves / Kkaennip
• *Japanese perilla leaves / Shiso
• Pipicha / straight-leaf pápalo — Mexico
• Poppy seed
• Purslane

  Q

• Quassia — a bitter spice in aperitifs and fortified wines along with a few beers

  R

• Red rice powder — China
• Rice paddy herb — Vietnam
• Rosemary
• Rue
• *Common rue / herb-of-grace

  S

• Safflower — only for yellow color
• Saffron
• *Use of saffron
• Sage
• Salad burnet
• Sassafras
• Savory
• *Summer savory
• *Winter savory
• Sesame
• *Black sesame seeds
• *White sesame seeds / benne
• Sha ren — China
• Silphium / silphion / laser / laserpicium / sorado — Ancient Roman cuisine, Ancient Greek cuisine
• Sorrel
• *Common sorrel / garden sorrel / spinach dock
• *Sheep sorrel / field sorrel / red sorrel
• Spearmint — q.v. Mint
• Spikenard / muskroot
• Star anise — q.v. [|Aniseed]
• Strawberry Gum — Australia
• Sumac
• *Sicilian sumac
• Sweet woodruff / sweet-scented bed-straw

  T

• Tarragon / estragon — q.v. Artemisia
• Thyme
• *Common thyme
• *Creeping thyme
• *Lavender thyme
• *Lemon thyme
• *Wild thyme
• *Woolly thyme
• Tonka beans
• Turkey berries / pendejera
• Turmeric

  V

• Vanilla
• Voatsiperifery — Madagascar — q.v. Pepper

  W

• Wasabi / Japanese horseradish
• Water-pepper / smartweed
• Wattleseed
• *Sandplain wattleseed / Murray's wattle / powder bark wattle
• *Elegant wattleseed / prickly wattle / gundabluey
• Wintergreen
• *Boxberry / eastern teaberry / American wintergreen
• *Fragrant wintergreen
• *Slender wintergreen / Oregon spicy wintergreen / western teaberry
• Wood avens / herb bennet
• Woodruff — q.v. [|Sweet woodruff]
• Wormwood / absinthe — q.v. Artemisia

  Y

• Yerba buena, any of several different species primarily in the mint family — q.v. Mint
• Yarrow

  Z

• Za'atar - The Levant
• Zedoary
• Zicao / red stoneroot / red gromwell — for red color

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