Spices and Medicinal Herbs
A complete guide to vegetables, spices & herbs

What are spices?

Classification of spices

- Allspice
- Black Cardamon
- Green Cardamon
- Cinnamon
- Cumin
- Arecaceae
- Bromeliaceae
- Cyperaceae
- Hydrocharitaceae
- Liliaceae
- Orchidaceae
- Poaceae (or Gramineae)
- Zingiberaceae

- Apiaceae
- Asteraceae
- Betulaceae
- Brassicaceae
- Cactaceae
- Caryophyllaceae
- Cornaceae
- Cucurbitaceae
- Ericaceae
- Euphorbiaceae
- Fabaceae
- Fagaceae
- Lamiaceae
- Lauraceae
- Magnoliaceae
- Nymphaeaceae
- Papaveraceae
- Piperaceae
- Ranunculaceae
- Rosaceae

What are herbs?

Classification of herbs

Annual herbs
Biennial Herbs
Perennial Herbs

What are vegetables?

Classification of vegetables

Classification of Spices

Angiosperms or flowering plants are the most dominant group of the vascular plant world. They are classified in two different parts according to the number of cotyledons present in them. A cotyledon contains stored food and serves as a food reservoir. Thus spices are majorly divided into two groups.

Monocots- They has only one cotyledon,

Dicots - They have two cotyledons

The studies by John Ray in the 1700's on the structure of seeds led him to discover the difference between monocotyledon (monocots) and dicotyledonous (dicots) plants. There are estimated to be about 165,000 different types of dicots and 55,000 types of monocots.

Aside from the difference between the seeds of monocots and dicots there are other different structures that separate monocots and dicots. They are

Common Monocot families are

Common Dicot families are

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