SBP,

Here is my curry leaves plant, still small (22 cm) but it is a 3 years old now,looks pretty ugly now, he loose some leaves during winter and became dormant.
Mind you the quality of the piccie is not so good, I use my mobile camera, DH is on his busines trip, can't borrow his nice camera, my old cam...well I can't find the slot card thingy after moving house....

Enjoy,
Momol

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A good photo momol.

The leaves have a tough sheen about them, kind of like small bay leaves? But I think you're gonna have to lavish lots of t.l.c. on your baby 'curry tree'!

Maybe I'll look for a young plant, I'm not sure I can wait so long to grow a tree from berries!

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Manda.

Yet Nature is made better by no mean
But Nature makes that mean; so over that art
Which you say adds to Nature, is an art
That Nature makes.

They grow fast in tropic but here very sad and slow ( slower than the slowest snails sadly). If you can get the fresh curry leaves, try to root the stem, it does sometimes work but, has to be fresh supply (not wilted)...

momol

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This is a useful link. It probably answers your question.

Spice Pages: Curry leaves (Murraya/Chalcas koenigii)

Thanks Vecten,

It will take years for my mini curry leaves plant to get to the pictures size. It was also attact by red spider mite . Just had some spray on it again and see what happen.

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I wish I had joined this site sooner. Feel I missed out on this thread. Anyway, I guess it's never too late to learn. I'm originally from South Africa, and just wanted to say that my mum grows curry leaves in SA, outside were the temp doesn't drop below 10 degrees C (we're on the coast). The leaves are green and the plant does look tree-like. We use it in all curries - usually just 1/2 sprigs with about 8-10 leaves on each. Wouldn't try the curry plant mentioned earlier. I felt very home sick as I read this thread.

I've grown them over the summer from plant bought in the garden centre. I think curry smells great when you're cooking it, but I didn't like it in the garden. I wouldn't grow it again.

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Hi Alice
What didn't you like about it? - Was thinking of trying it out myself.

The smell Delnel. They're strongly curry scented - and as I said it's great when you're cooking but I didn't like the smell in the garden.

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Curry plants do smell just like curry powder, but they are not to be use in the kitchen. Whereas leaves from curry trees are used in cooking.

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Manda.

Yet Nature is made better by no mean
But Nature makes that mean; so over that art
Which you say adds to Nature, is an art
That Nature makes.

Sorry missed that the first time! Slow mind and all that...Quite liked the scent myself. I was brought up on it though, so that's probably why. I understand that it's not everyones cup of tea.

I believe The Latin name is Murraya Koenigii

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good Diggin, Chuffa.

The curry tree is a tropical sub topical tree that can grow up to 6 meteres tall. The black berries it produces are edible but the seeds are poisonous. I believe the latin name is Murraya Koenigii. In my Mothers homeland of Sri Lanka it is called currapincha. You would probably need a very warm hothouse to grow them succesfully for lots of leaves.

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good Diggin, Chuffa.