I found it growing at the base of a hedge, in a grazed field close to an old house (in Ireland). It had leaves like mint and when I rubbed them it smelled lovely and minty. Leaves were green, rather that a blue-green. It had quite a woody stem - bit like a very big nettle. Was about 2 foot tall and had the reamins of a flower spike but petals were gone off it. Possible a garden escape but not sure.
2006-11-03 01:34:03 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
It's mint but maybe not as you know it?- it may be spearmint - try to sniff it alongside some mint for cooking - if you haven't got any you should be able to get it in a supermarket - see what you think. Spearmint has a more pepperminty smell, but not strong like peppermint. Spearmint has green leaves and 'spear' points, a bit like a nettle, pepermint leaves are rounder and darker - but on the other hand garden mint does certainly look a bit like nettles as well - so - sniffing and chewing is the only way! (This is the second minty question I've seen today ...) Spearmint grows wild, it likes streams and shady places, but you're right, it could easily be garden-escaped culinary mint.
2006-11-03 01:52:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definately a mint. Get an herbal book or go on the internet and look up motherwort. If it has a flower spike on top and in the leaves nodes, and a square stem., and the leaves are very triangular, it meets the description of motherwort. When in bloom, it will have purply flowers that form a cluster in the leave node but will look like it wraps around the stem. There will be these clusters at each node in the plant. If it does not have these features, the plant is still in the mint family.
2006-11-03 04:56:32 · answer #2 · answered by juncogirl3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-21 04:54:49 · answer #3 · answered by shine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the stem is squarish it is a kind of mint. The mint family is a big old fertile bunch...mint will grow anywhere and spread like crazy.
2006-11-04 03:40:39 · answer #4 · answered by AJ F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mint has a square stem.
2006-11-03 02:46:33 · answer #5 · answered by reynwater 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
im from donegal i have the same thing by the sound of it, blieve it or not mines is a mint tree so if you like mont happy cooking
2006-11-03 01:37:52 · answer #6 · answered by star ray 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some kind of mint.. hard to tell without seeing it..many many varieties of mint.
2006-11-03 02:11:22 · answer #7 · answered by grumpcookie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋