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Herbarium specimen: Mentha gentilis var. varigata

Taxon:Lamiaceae: Mentha gentilis var. varigata
Filed in taxon folder:Lamiaceae: Mentha gentilis var. varigata
Collected by:Laurence Athelstan Molesworth Riley
Collection date:5/9/1906
Locality:Great Britain, VC1 West Cornwall, Saint Ervan, SW86, By the ford over the stream
communicated:Mrs Riley
ex herb:Laurence Athelstan Molesworth Riley
Institution:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:K001026816
Image:
© Kew
Mentha gentilis var. varigata herbarium specimen from Saint Ervan, VC1 West Cornwall in 1906 by Laurence Athelstan Molesworth Riley.
collector's number:3
notes:Probably an escape.
"This variegated form is occasionally grown on cottage gardens & this, I suppose, was an excape". F.H.D. [? Frederick Hamilton Davey]

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Documented by xmhcman on 14th September 2014.

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