Is Huoxiang catnip? Is catnip mint

Huoxiang and peppermint look too similar and are often mistakenly distinguished, but in fact, Huoxiang and peppermint have many differences, such as the size, leaf shape, and flower differences, which are very different.

No. Huoxiang is Huoxiang, and peppermint is peppermint. Both Huoxiang and peppermint are Lamiaceae plants, which have many similarities in appearance and exude a refreshing fragrance, which is often confused between the two.

The difference between catnip and peppermint is that the leaves are different, the smell is different, and the growth habits are different.

1. The blades are different.

The leaves of catnip are thicker than those of peppermint, and the leaves of plum liquid catnip are whitish and have a layer of fine hairs on them, while peppermint does not.

2. The smell is different.

Catnip doesn't smell special, but cats like it and get excited when they smell it. Peppermint is a cool fragrance that will make you feel refreshed when you smell it, but cats hate the smell of mint very much.

3. Jingheng's growth habits are different.

Catnip can get frostbite in an environment of minus 2, and mint can safely overwinter at minus 15.

Peppermint

Peppermint is a plant of the Lamiaceae family, peppermint, that is, it belongs to other dried whole herbs in the same family. It is mostly born in the mountains and wetlands and rivers, and the rhizomes are horizontally bright and disturbed underground, mostly at an altitude of 2100 meters, but can also grow at an altitude of 3500 meters, and is an aromatic crop with special economic value. The whole plant is green and fragrant.

Mint leaves are opposite, the flowers are small lilac, lip-shaped, and bear small dark purple-brown fruits after flowers.

The mint picked in the greenhouse is the fresh vegetable on the Spring Festival table, which is very refreshing and delicious, and the usual use of mint instead of tea can also make you who are dozing off, quickly wake up. The distribution range of peppermint is distributed in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere, and it is distributed throughout China. It is cultivated in many parts of China, among which Jiangsu and Anhui are traditional authentic production areas, but the cultivation area is decreasing day by day.

Catnip is not a dry mint.

The shape is different. Mint stems erect, leaves oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate, elliptic or ovate-lanceolate, inflorescences axillary, spherical in outline, small nut ovate, flowering 7 September, fruiting 10 months. Catnip stems erect, leaves ovate to triangular heart-shaped, basal leaves stalked or nearly without barrels, inflorescences, small nuts triangular ovate, flower gap 6 August, fruiting 7 September.

The smell is different. Peppermint will smell faintly minty, and eating some mint in the summer will make you feel cool. Catnip doesn't smell like much, but catnip can make cats feel inexplicably excited.

Introduction of catnip

Catnip (scientific name: Nepeta Cataria L.).) is a perennial plant of the family Lamiaceae, Nepeta. Stems strong, lignified at base, multi-branched, 40-150 cm high, nearly quadrangular at base, obtuse quadrangular at top, shallowly grooved, pubescent with white.

Xinjiang, Gansu, Shaanxi, Henan, Shanxi, Shandong, Hubei, Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan and other places; It is mostly found next to houses or in shrubs, and the altitude is generally not more than 2500 meters. From central and southern Europe through Afghanistan, it is distributed eastward to Japan, and is wild in the Americas and southern Africa.