|titre=Résumé des usages
|texte=*feuilles condimentaires
*graines mucilagineuses en boisson
}}
== Description ==
| français
| basilic
|-
| créole antillais
| fonbazen (TRAMIL)
|-
| anglais
== Usages ==
*Voir les [[Basilic (Cazin 1868)|''Plantes médicinales'' de Cazin (1868)]]
{{Citation encadré
|texte=Tropical Asia, perhaps also north-eastern Africa. Locally naturalized throughout tropical Africa, Asia and America. Cultivated as an important culinary herb, essential oil crop and medicinal plant in Africa, southern Europe, southern Asia, Latin and southern North America (esp. California). Also grown as a bee plant and for ornament. The fresh or dehydrated leaves, sometimes also the inflorescences, used for flavouring vegetable dishes, soups, sauces, meat, fish and cheese. The basil essential oil added as a flavouring for confectionary, some liqueurs and commercial condiments. It is employed in cosmetics and perfumes. The mucilaginous nutlets are eaten and source of a tonic drink, Cherbet Tokhum, in Mediterranean countries. The plant has been used as a remedy (stomachic, carminative, gargle), aphrodisiac and insect repellent. ''Ocimum forskolei'' Benth., Labiat. gen. spec. 1 (1832) 6, occasionally grown and wild from Egypt to Arabia and Kenya has been suggested as the ancestor of ''O. basilicum''. Cultivation since ancient times in India, Egypt and the Greek and Roman antiquity. Many varieties and cultivars have been distinguished, differing in height, growth form, leaf size and shape, stem, leaf and flower colour (Danert 1959, Darrah 1980, Ivanova 1990). Several chemotypes of specific odour and aroma are characterized by different amounts of the major constituents of its essential oils (geraniol, eugenol, methyl chavicol, linalool, camphor and methyl cinnamate). New hybridogenous varieties have been recommended for cultivation recently, like ''Ocimum basilicum'' L. × ''O. forskolei'' Benth. as a culinary herb.
|auteur =Mansfeld.
}}
== Références ==
*[http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/tax_search.pl?Ocimum%20basilicum GRIN]
*[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/simplePlantNameSearch.do?find_wholeName=Ocimum%20basilicum&output_format=normal&query_type=by_query&back_page=query_ipni.html IPNI]
*[http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrcapex/f?p=185:4546:132916441287460130534585120485::NO::P7_BOTNAMEmodule,P7_DB_CHECKBOX1mf_use,P7_DB_CHECKBOX2source,P7_DB_CHECKBOX4akzanz,rehm,akzname,taxid:mf,,botnam,0,,Ocimum%20basilicum,,, 15847 Mansfeld]
*[http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Ocimum.html Multilingual Plant Name Database]
*[https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/nexus/Ocimum_nex.html NewCrop Purdue]
*[http://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Ocimum%20basilicum Plants for a future]
*[[:en:Ocimum basilicum (PROSEA)|PROSEA sur Pl@ntUse]]
*[[Ocimum basilicum (PROTA)|PROTA sur Pl@ntUse]https://inpn.mnhn.fr/espece/cd_nom/109797/tab/taxo TAXREF]
*[https://www.tela-botanica.org/bdtfx-nn-44334 Tela Botanica]
*[http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Ocimum%20basilicum Useful Tropical Plants Database]