Mint 'Chocolate Peppermint' Mentha x piperita Cooking Herb Culinary Kitchen Fresh Aromatic Herbs Easy to Grow Your Own by Park Farm Plants (6 x Plug Plants)

• A sweeter form of M. 'Black Peppermint' with a slight hint of sugary chocolate. Ideal Conditions: Prefers full sun, or partial shade with free-draining soil or compost. Possible Situation: All Mints are ideal for tubs or pots, or in places where people will brush against the foliage to emanate the strong fragrance. Resilience: Hardy
• Spreading Height x Spread / Trail: 60 x 45 cm Features: Attracts Wildlife Scented Typical Season: Spring Summer Autumn Flower Colour: Foliage Colour: green Flowering Time: July - August Planting Recommendations: Container Prefers: Full Sun Part Sun Temperature Tolerance: A hardy plant which should survive normal winter conditions outside, especially if protected from the hardest frosts.
• Grown and supplied by park Farm Plants
• Herbs are a widely distributed group of plants, excluding vegetables and other plants consumed for macronutrients, with savoury or aromatic properties that are used for flavouring and garnishing food, for medicinal purposes, or for fragrances. Culinary use typically distinguishes herbs from spices. Herbs generally refers to the leafy green or flowering parts of a plant, while spices are usually dried and produced from other parts of the plant, including seeds, bark, roots and fruits.

Chocolate mint is a close relative to ordinary peppermint ( Mentha piperita ). This hybrid is formed by crossing M. citrata (orange mint) with M. piperita to make the 'Chocolate' cultivar. It is a sterile hybrid plant that produces no seeds. It has an aroma of chocolate, but its taste resembles the orange citrus flavor of citrata mint.