Akin to the
Sesame
Plant, the Perilla Plant, also
commonly known as Sesame Leaves for its edible leaves, produces
oil-yielding
seeds, known as Perilla seeds.
The upper parts of its stems are covered with small hairy calyces, each of
which contains around three tiny seeds. In Thai, it is known as
nga
mon, i.e.
‘Mon sesame’.
Despite these names is the Perilla Plant of a completely different genus
than the Sesame Plant and belongs to another botanical family.
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