Hi
Can anyone help I have what I think is a bay leaf tree on my garden, however it has no taste or smell. Is there anyway to tell before I start adding it to my food?
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Good advice. I use lots of bay leaf in my cooking and they do have a very distinct and fairly strong aroma, especially when picked fresh off the tree.rainbowgardener wrote:If it has no taste and smell, it is not bay leaf!
If you post a picture of it, someone will be able to identify what kind of tree you have.
To me, the smell is similar to if you tear a leaf off a magnolia tree and get a whiff of it.
Here where I live, there are a couple of different species of laurel that are grown. They're often used for hedges. They look pretty much identical to the one used for cooking, except they have no scent. I had a hedge of them at the house I owned prior to the one I live in now. I'm thinking you probably have one of those.