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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: PaulM on July 14, 2010, 10:32:53 PM

Title: Mentha sp ?
Post by: PaulM on July 14, 2010, 10:32:53 PM

I collected seeds of this plant in Uzbekistan in 2005, and it has a minty smell. Do you think it could be a Menta sp ?

Title: Re: Mentha sp ?
Post by: arisaema on July 14, 2010, 10:59:19 PM

Ziziphora bungeana?

Title: Re: Mentha sp ?
Post by: Lesley Cox on July 15, 2010, 12:04:26 AM

A quick Google mentions ziziphora clinopodioides as "Blue Mint," attractive to bees and butterflies, I had Z. bungeana at one time but it died before it flowered. This looks like it though.

Title: Re: Mentha sp ?
Post by: PaulM on August 10, 2010, 09:45:43 PM

Thank you !  :D Ziziphora bungeana looks just like the illustration in Flora of China, and it occurs in Uzbekistan as well. Gee ! You learn so much at this place !

Title: Re: Mentha sp ?
Post by: Stephenb on August 10, 2010, 10:18:23 PM

I was going to say a Micromeria... must be quite closely related?