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Scientific Name: Mentha piperita
Common Name: Mint.

STEM, LEAVES AND FLOWERS
It leaves smooth, bright green, opposite, lanceolate and slightly toothed edges. Having regard to the light seen numerous clear spots corresponding to bags of essence. Instead of mentha spicata, or peppermint leaves is coated with a thin fuzz and grows wild or can be grown. The flower is petite, pale pinkish or lilac, sometimes entirely white. The bell-shaped calyx, is about two to three mm., With five teeth in the appendix. The throat of the calyx before opening the flower is closed mechita a thick white hairs. The corolla is one piece and is divided into four lobes nearly equal.

FRUIT: The fruit has to be sterile or very rudimentary. It is very aromatic.

HABITAT
The peppermint is not growing in the wild, tolerate extreme climates but its cultivation has been adapted to the soil moist and shaded, wind protected, in orchards. Grown mainly for industrial uses to serve the drug stores, for liquor factories and scents.
For his feature creeper is ideal for placing underneath other plants in beds or pots. The soil should be moist, rich in humus and lime (mix two parts of black soil, a sandy and a vermicompost).

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