Herbs Garden UTHM Pagoh Campus

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Herbs Garden UTHM Pagoh Campus

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Step into a world of natural beauty, enchanting scents, and captivating plant life. As you enter the gates of our herb garden, prepare to embark on a journey of exploration, learning, and inspiration. Located in one of the leading technical universities in Malaysia, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn (Pagoh Campus), you will find a tapestry of medicinal treasures, culinary delights, and ornamental wonders, each herb offering its own unique charm and potential. Welcome, and let the beauty of the herb garden unfold before you.

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Etlingera elatior, often known as torch ginger, is a perennial tropical that is widely grown for both ornamental and culinary purposes. It is typically found in secondary woods, particularly in exposed habitats, as well as in moist locations next to…

CharacteristicsIt is a perennial herb measuring 25-200 cm in height, poorly branched, quadrangular and had an ascending stem.                                                                                   MorphologyLeavesOppositely decussate, the…

Characteristicsa perennial herb which can grow up to 1 m tall with pubescent branches and cylindrical, striate, and glabrescent stems.MorphologyLeavessimple, opposite, narrowly elliptic-oblong or lanceolate (2.5–13.0 cm long × 0.5–1.5 cm…

CharacteristicsIt is a herbaceous plant, perrenial, low growing, compact herb up to 0.6 m tall.                                                                                     MorphologyLeavesThe broadly ovate to elliptic leaves are variegated…

CharacteristicsA perennial tuberous plant that can be found naturally as scattered plants in damp and shady parts of lowlands or mountain slopes.                                                                                     MorphologyLeavesThis…

CharacteristicsIt is a perennial herb with a life cycle of 3 – 10 years, fleshy and highly aromatic. It has a tendency to climb or creep, and can reach up to 1 m tall.                                                                                  …

Characteristics It is a fast-growing, much-branched and often crooked tree or shrub that can grow 3-10 m tall. The stem is 10-30 cm in diameter. Its bark is corky, whitish, grey or pale buff, containing coarse fibre and exuding white gum when…

CharacteristicsIt is a large herbaceous plant up to 3.5 m tall.                                                                                   MorphologyLeavesThe glossy, nearly hairless leaves are oblong to lance-shaped (50 cm long, 9 cm…

characteristicIt is a slender climbing legume with short, soft hairs on the stem. It has deep roots and ornamental flowers. 

MorphologyC. xanthorrhiza is an annual plant that grows in clumps and has a pseudostem (2–2.5 m in height). Each colony consists of several plants (tillers as much 3 to 9 plants), and each plant has 2–9 leaves. C. xanthorrhiza leaves are long and…

CharacteristicsA low growing, understory plant which has short fleshy rhizomes dark purple in colour, tuberous roots, leaves erect or apprised to the soil and inconspicuous flowers usually white with violet labellum

Common nameFiku, Piku, Common Fig, Edible FigCharacteristicDeciduous shrub (to 10-15' tall) or small tree (to 15-30' tall).

CharacteristicsA wild growing herb with long creeping stems.

MorphologyLeaves arranged spirally to almost opposite, simple; petiole 1–9 cm long; blade ovate to lanceolate, up to 14(–16) cm x 7(–12) cm, cuneate to truncate at base and decurrent along the petiole, acute to acuminate at apex, entire to toothed,…

Characteristics The colour is brownish-green while the odour is aromatic.                                                                                      MorphologyThe growth habit of the ‘serai wangi’ is similar to that of ‘serai makan’…

CharacteristicIt is a herb or subshrub perennial up to 1.5m tallMorphologyElliptic to obovate leaves are up to 12 cm long with narrow stems that are sometimes reddish. Flowers are typically red or pink, but can also be orange, purple or yellow. They…

CharacteristicsIt is a clump-forming grass up to 1.2 m tall or 2m tall when in flower.                                                                                   MorphologyLeavesLeaf blades are light green and  strap-shaped (up to 0.9 m long,…

Characteristics  It is a subshrub and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.                                                                                      MorphologyStemHerbaceous shrub, turns to semi-woody at base when mature. Stems…

A shrub or small tree, calamansi can reach heights of 3–6 m (10–20 ft). MorphologyObovate leaf shape and the spines are sharp-tipped and located laterallyalong with the shoot. However, the older shoots arecommonly thornless. Generally, the leaves…

CharacteristicsIt is a perennial herb with a life cycle of 3 – 10 years, fleshy and highly aromatic. It has a tendency to climb or creep, and can reach up to 1 m tall.                                                                                  …
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