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Mentha piperita L. (pro. sp.)

Synonyms

Mentha aquatica, Mentha crispa, Mentha dumetorum

Common names

Peppermint

Extract from Wikipedia article

Peppermint (Mentha × piperita, also known as M. balsamea Willd.) is a hybrid mint, a cross between watermint and spearmint. The plant, indigenous to Europe, is now widespread in cultivation throughout all regions of the world. It is found wild occasionally with its parent species.

Peppermint (Mentha piperita(?)) on Al Aasim Street in Musheirib area. Doha, Qatar, March 14, 2014
Al Aasim Street, Doha, Qatar

Bush of peppermint (Mentha piperita(?)) near Al Asmakh Street in Najada area. Doha, Qatar, March 28, 2014
Al Asmakh Street, Doha, Qatar

Peppermint (Mentha piperita(?)) on Ibn Nusaih Street in Onaiza area. Doha, Qatar, April 20, 2015
Al Istiqlal St, Doha, Qatar

Flowers of peppermint (Mentha piperita(?)) on Ibn Nusaih Street in Onaiza area. Doha, Qatar, April 30, 2015
Al Istiqlal Street, Doha, Qatar

Peppermint (Mentha piperita(?)) on Ibn Nusaih Street in Onaiza area. Doha, Qatar, April 30, 2015
Al Istiqlal Street, Doha, Qatar

Peppermint (Mentha piperita(?)) in Al Shamal City Park. Ruwais, Northern Qatar, January 16, 2016
Al Shamal Rd, Al Ruwais, Qatar

Peppermint (Mentha piperita(?)) on Ibn Nusaih Street in Onaiza area. Doha, Qatar, January 18, 2016
Al Istiqlal St, Doha, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Mentha piperita, Wikipedia article
• Mentha piperita from www.catalogueoflife.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

How the web page was created

• A list of plants with their common names was written using online sources and books.
• Web pages were written by a program consisting of several scripts.
• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
• This web page was written using a script.

Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.