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What kind of mint is this?

polbpolb Posts: 198
Can any one tell me what kind of mint plant this is? It grows tall and smells strongly of mint.. I just wondered what kind of mint it was....

Thank you

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Looks to me like apple mint but there are so many mints now, you'd need an expert to smell and taste it to confirm.   It grows wild here in the lanes and in a lot of the grassy and neglected areas.  Wonderful smell when mowing.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • polbpolb Posts: 198
    I think it tastes like spearmint...
  • I thought it was Apple mint as well, spearmint I think has finer leaves.
  • Spearmint leaves are much narrower and less rounded. I would agree looks like apple mint.
  • @polb,..yes i would agree with it being Apple Mint 'Mentha suaveolens',..i started collecting different species of Mint,..friends wanted some now i am left with about four species,..Apple Mint,..Variegated Mint,..Spearmint,..and Water Mint,..beautiful scent on a sunny day.
  • polbpolb Posts: 198
    hmm strange as it really does taste of spearmint..like the chewing gum!! I'm not getting any apple flavour :|
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I have strawberry mint that does not taste of strawberries, ginger ditto and Moroccan too.   They do tho have different leaves and slightly different tastes and uses.   Moroccan goes on tagines, couscous, tea.  Ginger is good with gin and tonic or gin and dry ginger.   I've made mint jelly with our wild apple mint and have yet to fins a use for the strawberry as it's new.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Apparently you have to keep type of mint separate as they sort of cross contaminate each other. I'm sure Monty Don mentioned it in a recent Gardeners World programme.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Apart from the rampant wild one we've found here I grow all mine in pots to keep them under control and I tend to group the pots together in a bright corner but out of direct sun.   Works for me as they all have different foliage so make a good group.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • polbpolb Posts: 198
    Thanks for the info Obelixx. I've just bought some chocolate mint to go in a pot next to my strawberries!

    I remember seeing something about cross contamination tessab98.. I wonder if I have some spearmint about as well and I now have Apple Spearmint!! B)
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