Peppermint ‘Chocolate mint’

Description

Cultivar

The chocolate mint is very similar to peppermint, but strangely enough has a fairly distinct smell of chocolate, “with a hint of” vanilla. Great for teas, cakes and desserts where this aroma fits in.

Species

Mentha x piperita L.

GBIF

Wikipedia

Chocolate mint is botanically a variant of many crosses between water mint (M. aquatica) and spearmint (M. spicata). Most varieties in this group are the ones most people know: peppermint.

Genus

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.