Akin to the Sesame Plant, the Perilla Plant, also commonly known as Sesame Leaves for its edible leaves, produces oil-yielding seeds, known as Perilla seeds. The upper parts of its stems are covered with small hairy calyces, each of which contains around three tiny seeds. In Thai, it is known as nga mon, i.e. ‘Mon sesame’. Despite these names is the Perilla Plant of a completely different genus than the Sesame Plant and belongs to another botanical family.