[Sca-cooks] Identifying mint

[Ted Eisenstein]

>According to the mint in my garden, peppermint has smooth leaves (makes it
>hard to tell which is peppermint and which is chocolate mint just by
>looking), and spearmint has, well, bumply leaves.

But bending down, and bruising/breaking a leaf and getting that delicious
smell wafting up is half the fun of growing mint! Why would one _want_
to tell just by looking?

<grin>

Alban
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