Mint species

This cultivated Mexican mint species has a long history of use by the Mazatecs. 

Regiospecific hydroxylation of the monoter-pene (—)-46 -limonene at the C-3 or C-6-allylic positions to yield (—)-menthol (peppermint) or (—)-carvone (spearmint), respectively, is accomplished by the last two functionally characterized CYP71DS, the CYP71D13 and CYP79D18 found in commercial mint species (Mentha sp.) . 

Menthol is 3-hydroxy-p-menthane. It occurs widely in mint species and the richest source is commint Mentha arvensis, up to 85%). The three unsaturated analogues shown in Figure 4.9 occur in many mint oils. Pulegol also occurs in Eucalyptus citriodora and rose oils, isopulegol can account for up to 10% of the oil of E. citriodora and piperitol occurs... 

Ocimum micranthum (4, Miscellaneous Admixtures ) This mint species is reportedly used as an ayahusaca 3Arais.XMXz in South America (Schultes Hofmann 1979). There exist at least two reports of the ethnomedicinal use of this species in M ico and Guatemala as an analgesic (Alcorn 1984 Giron etal. 1991). Chemical studies arc lacking,... 

Leonotis leonurus Under the name wilddagga ( wild marijuana )> flower buds and an exudate of the leaves of this mint species were smoked traditionally in South Africa as an inebriant by the Hottentots (Emboden 1979 Schleiffer 1979). Chemical studies are lacking, and the drug is used as an emmenj ogue in Thai ethno-medicine (Ponglux etal. 1987). 

Production By steam distillation from the flowering shrub of the crisped or curled mint species Mentha spicata ( native spearmint ) and Mentha cardiaca ( Scotch spearmint ). The main areas of cultivation are the American states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington as well as Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin ( Middle West ) oil production in 1992 was ca. 32001. It is also cultivated in smaller amounts in China and India production in 1992 ca. 500 t. 

Besides their unmatched range of biosynthetic pathways and reaction mechanisms, plants have found during their evolution unique possibilities to produce, store, and enrich even highly toxic substances by compartmentation in specialized cell organelles or special tissues like trichomes in mint species (Figure 2.5). 

The dicerandols A-C (1071 to 1073, Fig. 13.30) were isolated from Phomopsis longifolia, an endophytic fungus found to be growing on the endangered Horidian mint species, Dicerandra frutescens (684). The structures were determined using NMR experiments in combination with a positive FeCls experiment, which is... 

Volatile oils obtained from peppermint, corn-mint, and other mint species have antimicrobial, antimalarial and antigiradial activities in vitro. Peppermint extracts have been reported to have antiviral activities against Newcastle disease, herpes simplex, vaccinia, Sem-liki Forest, and West Nile viruses in egg and cell culture systems (see babn) The ethyl acetate extract of Moroccan M. longifolia was also found to possess inhibitory activity against HIV-1 reverse transcriptase. ... 

The best known oil of the. VoiKirda species is that known as America horse-mint oil, which is obtaLoed to the extent of about 1 per cent, from the herb. 1/oiKirdo pnnr.Lnta. The oil has a specific gravity from 0 930 to O iMO, and is either optically inactive or slightly dextro-rotatory. 

Fagus sylvatica (beech nuts) Mentha species (mints) Rosmarinus officinalis (rosemary) Laurus nobilis (laurel)... 

LUPIEN, S., KARP, F., WILDUNG, M., CROTEAU, R., Regiospecific cytochrome P450 limonene hydroxylases from mint (Mentha) species cDNA isolation, characterization, and functional expression of (-)-45-limonene 3-hydroxylase and (-)-45-limonene 6-hydroxylase, Arch. Biochem. Biophys., 1999, 368, 181-192. 

We hope to demonstrate here that it may be the lawn itself Desire and diazi-non are demanded by lawns, if not by the grasses that constitute them. When the lawn needs cutting, when vwld mints or fungi rival its constituent species, when it becomes dry, its signals are apparent to homeowners, whose response is an act of subjection, not only to the lawn, but also to the ideology of community and the international economy of turf maintenance. 

Herbs that like damp soil will grow well in a naturally boggy area, or you can create one by the edge of a pond. Try meadowsweet Filipendula), water mint, valerian, and hemp agrimony Eupatorium cannabinum). In dry summers you will need to keep the water levels in the pond or bog garden topped off. Note that some of these species can become invasive once they are established in the garden. 

A. Yes. It appears that number of different Salvia species have different forms of psychoactivity. In addition some other members of the mint family (to which genus Salvia belongs) are psychoactive ( psychoactive means that a substance effects mood, alertness, thinking, emotion, or perception, most psychoactive substances are not hallucinogenic), for example there is a Central Asian mint known as intoxicating mint (Lagochiles inebriens) whose leaves are reportedly toasted and then brewed into a sedative tea. 

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