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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] It is occasionally found in the wild with its parent species. [3] [4]
Eucalyptus amygdalina, commonly known as black peppermint, [3] is a species of flowering plant that is endemic to Tasmania. It is a small to medium-sized tree with rough bark on park of the trunk, smooth grey to brown bark above, lance-shaped to linear adult leaves, oval to club-shaped flower buds, white flowers and cup-shaped to hemispherical fruit.
Discovered (for the first time by European Americans): Black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) Bushy-tailed woodrat (Neotoma cinerea) Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) Swift fox (Vulpes velox) White-tailed jackrabbit (Lepus townsendii) Described: American badger ...
leaves and bark buds, flowers and fruit E. pulchella from A critical revision of the genus Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus pulchella, commonly known as the white peppermint or narrow-leaved peppermint, [2] is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to Tasmania. it has smooth bark, sometimes with rough fibrous bark on older trees, linear leaves, flower buds in groups of nine to twenty or ...
Eucalyptus nova-anglica, commonly known as the New England peppermint or black peppermint, [2] is a species of small to medium-sized tree endemic to eastern Australia. It has thick, rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and larger branches, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and hemispherical or conical fruit.
Eucalyptus nicholii, commonly known as the narrow-leaved black peppermint or willow peppermint, [2] is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to New South Wales. It has thick, rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and branches, small, narrow adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of seven, white flowers and small ...
An 1893 book about Salem [4] calls Gibraltars, together with molasses "black-jacks", "two Salem institutions" and says . The Gibraltar... is a white and delicate candy, flavored with lemon or peppermint, soft as cream at one stage of its existence, but capable of hardening into a consistency so stony and so unutterably flinty-hearted that it is almost a libel upon the rock whose name it bears.
[13] [14] John White, Surgeon General to the Colony, is also credited with the discovery, in documenting the matter [15] and organizing oil samples to be sent back to England. [8] The surgeons initially based their assumptions of the medicinal properties of E. piperita from the similarity of its fragrance to English peppermint.