Details for: PI 684911, Mentha ×piperita L., 'Elva-Mary mint'


Summary Data
Taxonomy:
Mentha ×piperita L.
Cultivar:
'Elva-Mary mint'
Origin:
Donated – New York, United States
Received by NPGS:
09 Oct 2015
Improvement Status:
Cultivated material
Reproductive Uniformity:

Hybrid
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Mentha ×piperita L.
Cultivar:
'Elva-Mary mint'
Origin:
Donated – New York, United States
Received by NPGS:
09 Oct 2015
Improvement Status:
Cultivated material
Reproductive Uniformity:

Hybrid
Form Received:
Plant
Life Form:
Perennial
Life Cycle:
Perennial
Source History
Donated
09 October 2015.
New York, United States

Donor(s):
Accession Names and Identifiers
'Elva-Mary mint'
Type: Cultivar name

CMEN 735
Type: Site identifier

Narrative
Here's much of the promised back story starting with the "landport" part. My grandfather (Arthur James) was the longtime Presbyterian minister in the tiny village of Smithfield (with a mailing address of Amenia, NY) where the mint was found, and my grandmother (Elva James) taught in one-room school there for many years. After they retired, my grandfather built a house (himself!) in Smithfield, and named it Landport after the section of Portsmouth, England, where he was born. Charles Dickens was born in Landport, too. And I've kept the name alive in my email address. By the time we found the mint in the late 1960s, just my grandmother was alive. My sisters and I found the mint growing wild on the roadside outside the fence of the nearby vast Lasker estate. Purchased by Albert and Mary Lasker (of cancer-research award fame), by the time we found the mint, only Mrs. Lasker (as we always called her) was alive. She was a vastly interesting woman, as Google can explain, including having with her own strong connections to NIH. Info about the Lasker Foundation is here: http://www.laskerfoundation.org/ The Laskers and my grandparents moved in completely different circles, but I think I was told that as country neighbors they had a polite nodding acquaintance. I think it would be absolutely lovely to name the mint for the two women involved in its existence, Elva (my grandmother who keep it growing in her yard for decades) and Mary (who's roadside provided it). By putting Mary's name second, "Mary mint" provide the nice word play of sounding like "merriment." Hence my name of "Elva-Mary Mint" for whatever it is I have growing in my yard.
Mentha ×piperita L.
Genus:
Mentha
Section:
Mentha
Family:
Lamiaceae (alt. Labiatae)
Subfamily:
Nepetoideae
Tribe:
Mentheae
Subtribe:
Menthinae
Nomen number:

24078
Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:576. 1753
Verified:
12/02/1993 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Autonym(s)
Mentha ×piperita L. subsp. piperita
Mentha ×piperita L. var. piperita

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Mentha ×piperita L. nothosubsp. pyramidalis (Ten.) Harley
Mentha lavanduliodora ined.
Mentha pyramidalis Ten.

Common names
LanguageNameAlternate namenoteseqCitation
Englishblack peppermint  1Tucker, A. O. & R. F. C. Naczi. 2007. Mentha: an overview of its classification and relationships. In: Lawrence, B. M., ed., Mint: the genus Mentha 31-32. Note: as a "extremely sterile", only clonally propagated
Englishcurly mint  1Tucker, A. O. & R. F. C. Naczi. 2007. Mentha: an overview of its classification and relationships. In: Lawrence, B. M., ed., Mint: the genus Mentha 31-32. Note: as a "extremely sterile", only clonally propagated
Englishhairy peppermint  1Tucker, A. O. & R. F. C. Naczi. 2007. Mentha: an overview of its classification and relationships. In: Lawrence, B. M., ed., Mint: the genus Mentha 31-32. Note: as a "extremely sterile", only clonally propagated
Englishpeppermint  1Wiersema, J. H. & B. León. 1999. World economic plants: a standard reference CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
Englishwhite peppermint  1Tucker, A. O. & R. F. C. Naczi. 2007. Mentha: an overview of its classification and relationships. In: Lawrence, B. M., ed., Mint: the genus Mentha 31-32. Note: as a "extremely sterile", only clonally propagated
English (Canada)pepper mint Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada official name2Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 216.
Frenchmenthe poivrée  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
French (Canada)menthe poivrée Agriculture & Agroalimentaire Canada nom officiel2Darbyshire, S. J. 2003. Inventory of Canadian Agricultural Weeds Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. 216.
GermanPfefferminze  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Germanweiße Minze  2Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
Portuguesehortelã-pimenta  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Spanishmenta piperita  2Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants
Swedishpepparmynta  2Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)
Transliterated Russianmjata perečnaja  2Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
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selection of peppermint