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Bay laurel
Laurus nobilis
The soup leaf of the Mediterranean — a pot shrub whose dried blade flavors broth and beans.
Flavor
Warm, resinous, clove-pine. One leaf is a meal; five is a pine forest.
Symptoms
indigestion, bloating
In favor
A single pot tree lasts decades
Against
Tender in hard frost
Days to harvest
Leaf from a young plant in 90–120 days; a bush in 2–3 years
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