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I thought it was a perilla leaf...

2024-06-29 09:54:58 | 日記


I found this while cleaning the gutters before the rainy season, and thought it was a shiso leaf, but it was actually a perilla leaf!

I ate it with chilled somen noodles and cold tofu as a side dish, but it didn't have much of a fragrance and I now understand why the texture was different.

Perilla leaves are shallowly incised, rounded, and red on the underside.

Perilla leaves had been shipped to the hometown market, and I realized that what I had replanted was not shiso but perilla, so I was glad to have the mystery solved.

When I searched, I found that shiso and perilla cross-breed well, and that they should be planted at least 200m apart.

Seeing is believing, so thank you.