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Mentha ×gracilis
About
The mint hybrid Mentha × gracilis (syn. Mentha x gentilis L.; syn. Mentha cardiaca (S.F. Gray) Bak.) is known by the common names of gingermint, redmint and Scotchmint in Europe, in North America it is known as Scotch spearmint and is cultivated for its essential oil, used to flavour spearmint chewing gum. It is a mint species within the genus Mentha, a sterile hybrid between Mentha arvensis (cornmint) and Mentha spicata (native spearmint).
- Family
- Lamiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Mentha ×gracilis
- Slug
- mentha-gracilis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Mentha
- Species
- ×gracilis
- Wikidata QID
- Q163136
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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