A new cultivar of rosemary plant with INTA seal is presented

"We believe it has great potential to be used as an ornamental, both as a single plant and as a hedge, due to its growth form, plant structure, foliage, and flowering. It is very eye-catching and persistent," highlighted Inés Lorello, one of the developers of the cultivar. It is a robust plant, with an upright posture and compact architecture, with dense, deep green foliage and a bluish-lilac flowering that lasts almost all year, only diminishing in conditions of water stress or intense cold. "It offers floral resources in times when other species have not yet flowered, which makes it an excellent material for beekeeping ventures and biodiverse productive plantings," added Lorello. This variety not only contributes on the ornamental level. Its yield in dry leaf reaches up to 6,000 kilos per hectare, and although the essential oil content is low compared to other types of creole rosemary, laboratory tests confirmed an antioxidant capacity of 62.8% in the inhibition of free ...