Common Dittany

(Cunila origanoides)

galery

Description

Ditta is a genus of plants, under the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1861. It is native to the Greater Antilles in the Caribbean.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:

Kingdom: Plantae

Phylum: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Order:Lamiales

Family:Lamiaceae

Genus:Cunila

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