Round Leaved Mint Bush

The round leaf mint bush reaches a height of two metres in our cold climate garden.

Round leaved mint bush. Prostanthera rotundifolia round leaved mint bush. These days it s more common as a culinary herb and ornamental bush. Prostanthera commonly known as mintbush or mint bush is a genus of flowering plants of the family lamiaceae. Pot size guide.

A lavish display of violet flowers all but hides the soft leaves throughout spring and early summer attracting butterflies and small insect eating birds. Spearmint mentha spicata and peppermint mentha piperita are the mint varieties most likely to appear in your backyard. It has a bushy crown of dense dark green leaves which are very aromatic. There are about 90 species within the genus all of which are endemic to australia.

Prostanthera rotundifolia round leaved mint bush. It grows wild in temperate regions of south australia new south wales victoria and tasmania though it is listed as a vulnerable species in tasmania. Rounded highly aromatic muted green leaves. Be sure to smell it too since many species of the family are loaded with aromatic volatile oils.

Round leaf mint bush is a type of native mint used traditionally as a medicinal herb for treating headaches and colds. Round leaved mint bush other common names round leaved mint bush australian mint bush family lamiaceae genus prostanthera are bushy evergreen shrubs with small dark green highly aromatic leaves and terminal panicles or. This shrub produces lilac or mauve but sometimes whitish flowers they are arranged in large open or more compact clusters the leaves are dense dark green and very aromatic. The word is derived from the greek for an appendage.

To distinguish between them you ll have to take a nibble. Large clusters of purple lilac and sometimes white or pink flowers decorate this fast growing shrub throughout spring and summer. Prostanthera rotundifolia or the round leaved mint bush has lilac mauve or whitish flowers that appear in spring and summer and are arranged in large clusters. As the common name suggests the leaves are round.

Prostanthera minty native mint bush a small to medium dense shrub with highly aromatic foliage continuously releasing a mint essence into the atmosphere. Flowering is in spring when the plants become covered with blooms. Rotundifolia is a bushy evergreen shrub to 2m with small ovate. Both these mints also bear pale lilac flowers.

Both have fuzzy leaves with jaggedly toothed edges that smell strongly minty when crushed. Within the flowers are small spur like appendages on the anthers.