Chocolate Mint Plants

[Green Chemist]

Any tried those Chocolate mint plants?? I got one from Bunnings. I pick off about 16 leaves and put it in a blender with milk. Makes a great tasting drink. And further more it gives me a really postive feel good feeling. Kinda like Kava. Have not tried smoking the dried leaf as the plant is still small. It died back a bit during the winter but now is coming back good.

Any have any good effects with this plant??

Looking forward to it getting bigger.

[ergoamide]

The chocolate mint plant is the true peppermint plant I'm pretty sure. Mentha x piperita is it's botanical name and form what ive read thats just peppermint. And your common mint Mentha Spictata is infact spearmint i'm pretty sure. Havnt treid it altough i ahve a huge plant about 1m across and a ft high of it growin in the backyard, guess i'll give it a go soon.

[Benzito]

I'm the dude who eats all the plants in the garden centre. I don't own a Chocolate Mint, but I've sampled them, hehe.

In my experience, they release a chocolate aroma when the foliage is damaged, but they just taste like a standard kind of mint to me.

[bok]

pepermint and chocolate mint are two separate, well extremely closely related plant variants. I agree they are filth in milk, peppermint can be a bit strong tho.

[dracos6]

what about pineapple sage?

anyone tried this, saw some gardenworld

[coin]

i tried a taiwanese tea that i think was an oolong with pineapple sage..was very yummy

mints, basils and sages can have a mild effect of lifting the mood and clarifying the senses

[ 17. August 2005, 15:48: Message edited by: coin ]

[dracos6]

cool, have to go get some