Photo credit
Ooba is the English transliteration of the name of a Japanese herb, as used in my local Japanese market. I wanted an image of an Ooba leaf to be the logo image for this program. Searches on Google produced these results:
Ooba:
http://www.japanhouse.ru/eng/products/vegetables/ooba.php:
Vegetables - Ooba: Ooba has come to Japan from China. It has
been cultivated as medicine plant with very pleasant taste.
It also has sterilization effect.
One recipe refers to Ooba or Beefsteak Plant
.
In a search for Beefsteak Plant
on Google Images, many species were so
tagged, but this url:
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Story?id=4677911&page=2
(dated 2008-08-13
and probably very ephemeral) has a photo that looks like Ooba. The plant
is identified as perilla
.
Another Beefsteak Plant
hit is
http://www.swsbm.com/britton-brown/britton-brown3.html,
Britton & Brown, Illustrated Flora 2nd Ed. (1913) which refers to
Perilla frutescens, found on US Atlantic coast, IL, MO, TX.
Native of India. Follow the page's link for an image and description
from the book.
Now a search on Google Images for Perilla frutescens
produces a hit:
| Our filename: | Green_shiso_perilla.jpg
(original)
ooba-logo.jpg (modified) |
| Content: | Leave(s) of Ooba |
| Image properties: | 1932x1239px JPEG (original) |
| Image URL: | http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Green_shiso_perilla.jpg |
| Context: | http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Green_shiso_perilla.jpg (which is text/html despite the extension). |
| Title: | Shiso, Perilla, Beefsteak Plant, Japanese Basil |
| Photographer: | Zeimusu (Wikipedia loginID) |
| Date: | 2005-06-08 |
| License: | Dual: GNU Free Documentation License v1.2 or later, or Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0. |
| Our Modifications: | Logo image has been / will be cropped to show only one leaf, rotated, and scaled smaller. |
