Mint, formerly known as "Yindancao", is commonly known as Elsholtzia, fish herb, soil mint, water mint, elderberry, jellyfish, detumescence, savage salvia, night breath incense, southern mint and wild mint [1]. It is a labiatae plant, that is, it belongs to other dry whole grasses. Most of them were born by the wetland river in Shan Ye, and their roots are underground. Most of them were born at an altitude of 2 100 meters, but they can also grow at an altitude of 3500 meters. They are aromatic crops with special economic value.

The whole plant is green and fragrant. The leaves are opposite, the flowers are small lavender, lip-shaped, and the flowers are small and dark purple-brown.

Mint is one of the commonly used Chinese medicines. It is a pungent, refreshing, sweating and antipyretic drug, which can be used to treat influenza, headache, red eye, body heat, sore throat and gum. External use can treat neuralgia, skin itching, rash and eczema. Usually use mint instead of tea to clear the heart and improve eyesight.

The mint picked in the greenhouse is a fresh dish on the Spring Festival table. Refreshing and delicious.

In China, the output of mint is the largest in Jiangsu and Anhui provinces.

There are three planting methods of mint: rhizome planting, ramet planting and cutting propagation.

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Another name

Wild mint and cordate telosma

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Distribution, growing environment, variety types, cultivation techniques, main values, matters needing attention, plant cultivation, and food nutrients.

morphological character

Perennial herbs. The stem is erect, 30-60 cm high, with slender fibrous roots and horizontal creeping rhizomes at the lower part, sharp quadrangular, with four grooves, the upper part is inverted and puberulent, and the lower part is only puberulent along the edge, with many branches.

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Leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate, elliptic or ovoid-lanceolate, sparsely oblong, 3-5(7) cm long and 0.8-3 cm wide, with a sharp apex, a wedge-shaped to nearly round base, sparse coarse-toothed serrations on the edge above the base, about 5-6 pairs of lateral veins, midvein protruding above the dimple and green at the top; The rest are sparsely puberulent along the veins, or nearly glabrous except for the veins, and the upper part is light green, usually densely puberulent along the veins; Petiole 2- 10 mm long, concave and convex, puberulent.

Hibiscus axillary, spherical in outline, with a flower diameter of about 18 mm, pedunculate or sessile. When there is a peduncle, the peduncle can be as long as 3 mm and be puberulent. Pedicel slender, 2.5 mm long, puberulent or subglabrous. Calyx tube bell-shaped, about 2.5 mm long, puberulent and glandular outside, hairless inside, 10 vein, inconspicuous, calyx teeth 5, narrowly triangular subulate, long and sharp at the apex, long 1 mm. Corolla lavender, 4 mm long, slightly puberulent outside, puberulent inside below throat, 4-lobed corolla, 2-lobed upper lobe, larger, and the other 3 lobes are similar in size, rectangular and obtuse. There are 4 stamens, the first pair is longer, about 5 mm long, all of them protrude from the corolla, the filaments are filiform, glabrous, the anthers are ovate, 2-loculed, and the locules are parallel. Style slightly beyond stamens, apex nearly equal to 2-lobed, lobes subulate. The disc is flat-topped.

Nutlets are ovoid, yellow-brown, pitted, [1] with small glandular pits. The flowering period is from July to September, and the fruiting period is 65438+1October.