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What are 50 medicinal plants with their English name scientific name origin habitat propagation and purpose?

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There are a great many excellent books as well as websites to research your question. May I suggest:

The New Age Herbalist by Richard Mabey, published by Simon & Schuster Inc. 1988.

Holistic Herbal by David Hoffman published by Element Books 1996

The complete Book of Herbs by Lesley Bremness published by Viking Studio Books 1988

Or you could good to the quintessential Herbal:
Culpeper's Complete Herbal, by Nicholas Culpeper
My copy is from W Foulsham & Co Ltd and the book in various forms has been printed and reprinted for decades.

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