Herbal Garden (Muligai Vanam) Peppermint

Mentha x piperita L. a medicinally important plant belongs to the family Lamiaceae. It is widely grown in temperate areas of the world particularly in Asia, Europe, North America and Africa but nowadays cultivated throughout the world. The plant is strongly scented, rhizomatous perennial herb, about 30 to 90 cm in height; stem square erect, branched, upper portion quadrangular; rhizomes wide-spreading, fleshy with fibrous roots; leaves 4 to 9 cm long and 1.5 to 4 cm broad, opposite, petiolate, ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, dark green on the upper surface; flowers 6 to 8 mm long, purplish, fruit consists of 4 ellipsoidal nutlets. The plant can spread quickly through underground stem.

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