different between agathosma vs buchu

English

Borrowed from Khoekhoe buku.

buchu (countable and uncountable, plural buchus)

A South African shrub in the genus Agathosma.
- 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage 2000, p. 41:
  Inside us, like chromosomes, lay the memories of […] guinea-fowl clicking in the early morning grass or the delicate tracks of the sandpiper, the smell of buchu and veld fires […]
(South Africa) Medicinal leaves from the shrub that are often used in brandy; this is an old Dutch medicine.
- 1999, JM Coetzee, Disgrace, Vintage 2000, p. 71:
  Like Lucy, they have potatoes and onions to sell, but also bottled jams, preserves, dried fruit, packets of buchu tea, honeybush tea, herbs.

buchu

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