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The word "mint" descends from the Latin word mentha or menta, [40] which is rooted in the Greek words μίνθα mintha, μίνθη minthē or μίντη mintē meaning "spearmint". [2] The plant was personified in Greek mythology as Minthe , a nymph who was beloved by Hades and was transformed into a mint plant by either Persephone or Demeter .
Pineapple mint (Mentha suaveolens 'Variegata') is a cultivar of apple mint that has leaves which are banded with white. A hybrid derived from it is grapefruit mint (Mentha suaveolens × piperata). Apple mint has been used for medicinal purposes for thousands of years in many parts of the world, including Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Americas.
Peppermint (Mentha × piperita) is a hybrid species of mint, a cross between watermint and spearmint. [1] Indigenous to Europe and the Middle East, [ 2 ] the plant is now widely spread and cultivated in many regions of the world. [ 3 ]
Mentha laxiflora, the forest mint, is native to moist woodland in eastern Australia (Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory). [1] This plant usually flowers from September to March and has a usual size of 15–40 cm × 1 m. The flowering is present with 4–8 lobed flowers on short stalks that are mauve pink to white.
Mentha × gracilis (syn. Mentha × gentilis L.; syn. Mentha cardiaca (S.F. Gray) Bak.) is a hybrid mint species within the genus Mentha, a sterile hybrid between Mentha arvensis (cornmint) and Mentha spicata (native spearmint). It is cultivated for its essential oil, used to flavour spearmint chewing gum. [1]
Mentha arvensis, the corn mint, field mint, or wild mint, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae. It has a circumboreal distribution, being native to the temperate regions of Europe and western and central Asia , east to the Himalaya and eastern Siberia , and North America .
Mentha longifolia, also known as horse mint, [1] brookmint, [2] fillymint or St. John's horsemint, is a species of plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is native to Europe excluding Britain and Ireland, [ 3 ] western and central Asia (east to Nepal and far western China), and northern and southern (but not tropical) Africa.
Mentha aquatica (water mint; syn. Mentha hirsuta Huds. [ 3 ] ) is a perennial flowering plant in the mint family, Lamiaceae . It grows in moist places and is native to much of Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia .