Common name: Common Heliotrope, Cherry pie
Scientific name: Heliotropium arborescens
Origin: Peru
Uses: An old-fashioned plant whose flowers have a scent of vanilla that does well in partial shade. Helios, meaning sun, and tropein, meaning turn, derives from the fact that these plants turn their leaves to the sun. Historically, these were grown on Alcatraz.
Common name: Common Heliotrope, Cherry pie
Scientific name: Heliotropium arborescens
Origin: Peru
Uses: An old-fashioned plant whose flowers have a scent of vanilla that does well in partial shade. Helios, meaning sun, and tropein, meaning turn, derives from the fact that these plants turn their leaves to the sun. Historically, these were grown on Alcatraz.
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