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Spearmint is a pleasantly aromatic herb, packed with numerous health-benefiting vitamins, antioxidants, and phytonutrients. Its leaves and herb parts carry essential oil, menthol. Unlike peppermint, spearmint leaves compose only small amounts of menthol, 0.5% compared to 40% in peppermint. Less menthol content would make this herb the least ...
Mentha spicata, commonly called spearmint, is a rhizomatous, upright perennial which is most commonly grown as a culinary herb and/or ground cover. It typically grows to 2' tall and spreads by rhizomes to form an attractive ground cover. It features ovate to lanceolate dark green leaves (to 3" long) and terminal spikes of small lilac to pink to ...
The standard form of mint is spearmint (Mentha spicata), which is often just sold as garden mint. But there are many other flavours, including peppermint, apple mint, banana mint and pineapple mint, to name but a few. There is even an aquatic species – water mint (Mentha aquatica) – for growing in ponds. The different mints can vary in ...
Peppermint is also known as brandy mint and lily-rail. Botanically, Mentha x piperita belongs to the Lamiaceae family and is part of the mint genus (Mentha), along with roughly 30 other mint species. The perennial, herbaceous plant has strongly branched, square, hairy stems that can grow up to one metre high.
See text. In botany, mint is the common name for any of the various herbaceous plants comprising the genus Mentha, a taxon of about 25 species of aromatic, almost exclusively perennial plants in the mint family Lamiaceae. They are characterized by wide-spreading, underground rhizomes; erect, square, branched stems; paired, oppositely arranged ...
Description and Ethnobotany. Perennial herb. Green and yellow mottled leaves are narrowly ovate with toothed margin. Stems are dark red and round. Small, purplish flowers appear to wrap around the stem at intervals along a spike inforescence. The whorl-like cluster of flowers is known as a verticillaster. The fruit is composed of 4 nutlets (a ...
Spearmint (Mentha spicata) is a perennial herb that originates from Europe and Asia and is commonly used as a flavouring in food and drink. Also known as common mint, lamb mint, or garden mint, spearmint is easy to grow and care for and will come back year after year.
