help | home

Herbarium specimen: Mentha arvensis x aquatica x spicata = M. x smithiana

Taxon:Lamiaceae: Mentha arvensis x aquatica x spicata = M. x smithiana R.A. Graham ("Tall Mint")
uncertain identification by Raymond Mervyn Harley 9/9/1957

Unlikely to be the hybrid suggested but a most unusual form meriting further study. I would not care to name it at this stage.

Filed in taxon folder:Lamiaceae: Mentha arvensis x aquatica x spicata = M. x smithiana R.A. Graham ("Tall Mint")
Collected by:Mr Charles Edgar Salmon
Collection date:8/1899
Locality:Great Britain, VC17 Surrey, Nutfield, TQ35, marsh
ex herb:Mr Charles Edgar Salmon
Institution:Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:K001026948
Image:
© Kew
Mentha arvensis x aquatica x spicata = M. x smithiana herbarium specimen from Nutfield, VC17 Surrey in 1899 by Mr Charles Edgar Salmon.
fruits/flowers:mature flowers
notes:(with the parents)

Inferred details are marked.

Show in Google Earth

This sheet was documented by volunteers from the herbarium@home project.

Log-in to edit this specimen or crop examples of handwriting.

Documented by xmhcman on 9th July 2014.

herbaria@home > specimen search