The mint leaf has oval or lip-lipped like leaves that are very green and fresh.

Mint bears an erect stem about 30-60 centimeters tall, with slender fibrous roots and horizontal rhizomes in the lower part of the plant, finely pilose above and below, and well-branched. The leaves of the mint are generally round (oval) and lance-shaped (ovate), and some are sparsely oblong, pointed and rounded, with coarser serrations on the edges.

The flowers of mint are spherical in outline, about 18 millimeters in diameter, with a lavender corolla, about 4 millimeters long, and as finely pilose on the outside as on the stem, and oblong petals. The mint leaves are 3-5 centimeters long and 0.8-3 centimeters wide, and the dogbane is 3-7 centimeters long and 1-2 centimeters wide. Mint leaf whorls are axillary, and dogwood scented whorls are born at the top of stems and branches. Mint leaves are mainly produced in China's Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, dog meat incense native to southern Europe, the Canary Islands, Madeira, the Soviet Union.

Peppermint growth habit

Peppermint ability to adapt to the environment is relatively strong, the wild grows in the wetlands of the water's edge, 2100 meters under the altitude of growth, up to 3500 meters above sea level in the place of growth. Because it is a host plant, so you can survive the winter by the rhizome, -15 ℃ low temperature will not kill; If the temperature is between 20-30 ℃, water and fertilizer supply is normal, then the growth with the temperature rise and accelerate.

Peppermint like warm and humid climate and sunny, rainy environment. Soil to loose fertile, well-drained sandy soil is good. Mint growth optimal temperature of 20 ~ 25 ℃. Soil temperature in 2 ~ 3 ℃ when the underground stems can germinate, shoots can withstand -8 ℃ of low temperature. Where the soil is infertile, sticky soil, too acidic and alkaline, as well as dry and shaded, low-lying and easily waterlogged places are not suitable for planting. Avoid continuous cropping.