What kind of mint am I growing?
Question:I am growing what smells like mint on my garden, but it is not the common mint. It has large (half dollar sized leaves that are fuzzy). Any ideas as to what kind of mint it is?
Answers:
Leaves that big and fuzzy could be spearmint or apple mint, which is really fuzzy. Pennyroyal has small leaves and creeps low to the ground so I doubt it's that. It *could* be peppermint, but most varieties of that have smoother smaller leaves than spearmint. If you need to distinguish them, peppermint smells like candycanes. Spearmint smells like those green gummy candy leaves with the sugar on the outside.
I have a fuzzy round leafed plant that kinda smells like mint but it is called cuban sage I have it in a pot and when the round leaves fall off and into the dirt it starts new plants.
peppermint
There are probably 30 or more varieties of mint. It would be hard to say for sure which one you have.
I would say try tasting the leaf, but - it it is Pennyroyal you wouldn't want to do that, as it it toxic.
So many mints, too many named and misnamed to count. Plus new varieties and natural hybrids make it even more confounding. Be your own taxonomist and call yours the "Ritata 50 Cent Fuzzy". RScott
There are at least 15 varieties of mint that I can think of. No way to know with seeing or smelling it.
Here is a site that lists more than 50, most with pictures. Maybe you can find your mint in this list. Happy Hunting
http://www.annettesherbgarden.com/pages/...
Sounds like spearmint and to me, the worst kind to control.
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