Herbarium specimen: Mentha spicata x suaveolens = M. x villosa

Taxon:	Lamiaceae: Mentha spicata x suaveolens = M. x villosa Huds. ("Apple-mint") det. Raymond Mervyn Harley 9/11/1981 The plant is still immature. Its male sterility could be due to hybridity or gynodioecism. Leaf morphology suggests it is a cultivated form of the hybrid (it used to be called M. x cordifolia Opiz)
Filed in taxon folder:	Lamiaceae: Mentha spicata x suaveolens = M. x villosa Huds. ("Apple-mint")
Collected by:	G Halliday
Collection date:	10/9/1981
Locality:	Great Britain, VC69 Westmorland, Soulby, NY727128, in small syke in field on south side of road, near Grassgill Rigg GR 35/727.128 [= NY727128; maps as 'Keld Head (spring)']
ex herb:	University of Lancaster
Institution:	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Accession number:	K001027813
Image: © Kew
collector's number:	187/81
fruits/flowers:	mature flowers
Filing note:	glabrous form

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Documented by xmhcman on 13^th September 2014.