French mint

Description

Cultivar

This mint came to us from a plant sale on the marked square Stortorget in Oslo many years ago. It was there called “French mint”, but we can’t find anything special about this online. If anyone has information, please get in touch. We offer it because it is unlike any of the others we have and is good fresh, or dried for tea.

Species

This is a hybrid between two or more species in the the mint genus

Genus

Mentha L.

GBIF

Wikipedia

There are more than 2,000 named hybrids between various combinations of the roughly 20 species in the mint genus. Since the species interbreed so easily, new combinations will emerge in gardens multiple species and hybrids. This has led to a situation with a lot of conflicting information about names and which species are included.