Description: The Rosemary is a shrub very common in the Mediterranean region. The Portuguese people brought this plant to Cape Verde. According to Ana Moreno, the Rosemary tea is traditionally used for stomach pains. (*)
Provided by: Ana Moreira dos Santos, a Cape Verde-born Portuguese.
Present Location: Vitoria Garden Collection (transplanted from Quinta da Vitoria neighborhood in October 2014).
Last revision date: March 2016
(I) Numbering in accordance with the archive of trees and plants identified in the Quinta da Vitoria 2012 and 2013.
(II) Mabberley, David J. Mabberley´s Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classifications and Uses. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
(*) Testimonies of residents gathered in a set of recorded conversations in the neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória and later to your demolition, recorded in Lisbon, Loures and London between July 2012 and October 2014.
