Welcome to Natin Spicy Garden

The garden is located in the Southern Thai province Krabi. Natin is one of the seven villages together known as Ao Nang, with beaches at the Andaman Sea.
The garden is a plot of ca 8000 m², surrounded by beautifull steep mountains mostly with caves (old coral reefs).

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corral mountain in background.
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this palm is home in Madagascar
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including a camphor tree
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real garlic smell
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an epiphytic fern
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Most of them wrote down the Thai names from the labels
Visitor center Bismarckia nobilis Cinnamon trees Garlic vine Platicerium_holttumii 80 young visiters

The garden is for people interested in plants.
Here you can see the living plants you know from the labels on the box like coffee,cinnamon etc.

For nearly every day use:

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very fragrant flowers
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with red ripe fruits
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green berries for green and black pepper,red berries for the white pepper
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small flower pollinated by even smaller flyes
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fruit has purplush seeds with the odour of choclat
Robusta coffee Robusta coffee Pepper berries Cacao flower cacao

Spices like:

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flowering in top of the stem
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flowering with a flower head on leafless stalk
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the top has only showy bracts and no flowers(comosus)
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flowering shrub
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smashed together gives a curry paste
lesser galangal ginger turmeric flowering curry leaf bush turmeric root+curry leaf

Tropical fruits like:

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In S. America pollinated by humming birds
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fruit with one comosus
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fruit with may comosa
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fruits and flowers
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not ripe
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flowering.Figs have the flowers insdide the figs.
Pineapple,flowering pineapple pineapple papaya jackfruit(family of figs) young jackfruit

Tropical vegetables like:

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white flowers
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fruit and flower
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nice ornamented fruit
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Musa sp. AAB group Kluai roi wi
Water spinach Common cucumber Bitter cucumber banana's in many hands

Plants that have other uses such as:

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very nice smell, used as perfume in soaps and washing products
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Citronells oil is Used in sauna's, in aroma therapy and as a mosquito repellent
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only the leaves are used
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high quality timber
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As a medicine for the heart.In Africa used on deadly toxic hunting darts
Acacia farnesiana Citronella grass Henna flowering Teak Climbing Oleander

Thai people do not make a big difference between food plants, spices and medicinal plant as Western people do today.
The Thai name for the garden is more according the Thai concept of edible plants that can be used medicinal or as spice.
Therefore we chose as Thai name สวน สมุนไพร นาตีน ,pronounced as suan samunprai Natin.
It can be translated as garden medicinal plants [in] Natin .

If you are in Krabi, we think you should visit the garden if your interest is in the following list: