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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 .
Mentha longifolia var. asiatica is known by the common name Asian mint. [2] It is a variety of the mint species Mentha longifolia . It has also been treated as the separate species, Mentha asiatica and Mentha vagans .
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]
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.
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 was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753. [10] As with other Mentha species, it was subsequently re-described under a variety of different names; as of July 2019 [update] , Plants of the World Online listed 87 synonyms, including four forms or varieties that it does not recognize. [ 11 ]
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 .
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