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WHAT IS 'OREGANO' ?-It is fair to say there is still a lot of confusion with both the name given to dried herbs and with the living plants. Many confusions are carried forward by gardeners and even garden writers, not being helped by the botanists re-assigning species into sub-species of a different name!
'Oregano' is a term used in North America covering the dried herb of the two 'hotter' Origanum species - Origanum vulgare and Origanum onites ('pot marjoram'). It also covers several sub-species (the abbreviation is 'ssp.') of Origanum vulgare, particularly the very widespread and common sub-species Origanum vulgare ssp. vulgare, as well as the much less common O. vulgare ssp. viride, and the one that we are concerned with, the relatively localised Turkish sub-species - Origanum vulgare ssp. hirtum, the 'true Turkish' form of oregano, a form very high in essential oils.
'Oregano' is also used for a Turkishsage bush which is increasingly used as an 'oregano substitute', but labelled as being a form of oregano, usually being described as 'Turkish oregano'. All Origanum species are, in fact, native only to Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia. To confuse matters further, the 'flavoring' known in the trade as 'oregano' can also be extracted from Coleus amboinicus and several other totally unrelated species, and then used in products and described as 'oregano flavored'!
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