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Mentha ×piperita
About
Peppermint (Mentha × piperita, also known as Mentha balsamea Willd.) is a hybrid mint, a cross between watermint and spearmint. Indigenous to Europe and the Middle East, the plant is now widespread in cultivation in many regions of the world. It is occasionally found in the wild with its parent species.
- Family
- Lamiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Mentha ×piperita
- Slug
- mentha-piperita
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Lamiaceae
- Genus
- Mentha
- Species
- ×piperita
- Wikidata QID
- Q156037
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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