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Note:  Do not rely on this information. It is very old.

Balsam

Balsam, a garden plant, Impatiens Balsamina, belonging to the tribe Balsamineae of the order Geraniaceae. It is an East Indian annual, and its naturally monosymmetric flowers, with a large spur to the posterior sepal, have been so doubled in cultivation as to be almost polysymmetric.