Common Mint Field Mint,Bo he,BOHE,su bo he,Peppermint,Herba Menthae,Field mint,Old Traditions and modern research.

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Botanical Narrative of Herba Menthae,Field mint.

Mentha Powder Extract INCI Name Mentha Arvensis Extract CAS 90063-97-1 EINECS ELINCS No 290-058-5 Mint Leaf Extract Mentha haplocalyx Mentha piperita Linn photo picture image The plant is thought to be indigenous to Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia. It was introduced into America, Australia, and Madiera.

 Generally, mint is a strongly aromatic square-stemmed annual that can grow to thirty-two inches and produce serrated leaves which are harvested just before flowering. Various species grow naturally worldwide and can quickly take over a garden by sending up new offshoots from their rapidly spreading roots, in addition to scattering seeds far and wide. The species readily inbreeds so they are sometimes difficult to tell apart, but all have a distinctive minty odour and a fresh taste.
 Mentha Powder Extract INCI Name Mentha Arvensis Extract CAS 90063-97-1 EINECS ELINCS No 290-058-5 Mint Leaf Extract Mentha haplocalyx Mentha piperita Linn photo picture image

 In Mexico, the field mint grows wild along the banks of streams and brooks, as well as being cultivated in gardens. The leaves look like mint; but the small, round purple flowers look more like Pennyroyal, for which it is often mistaken. One type of Pennyroyal (Hedeoma oblongifolia or H. pulegioides), is a distant relation, but Mexicans use them interchangeably. The only difference is in the stem with pennyroyal branching out, while brook mint has only one stem.

 Peppermint is a perennial hybrid of Mentha aquatica and M. spicata, forming M. Piperita. The essential oil is obtained from the stem of the plant through distillation.

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