You’re purchasing a long, rooted section of this rare, uniquely delicious mint, ready to plant! It makes the sweetest, most aromatic mint tea you’ve ever tried… and it’s easy to grow a lot!

(It’s mint – it will spread aggressively. It’s best to keep in pots unless you want it to take over your garden.)

Botanical Name: Mentha spicata var. crispa

Moroccan Mint is a medium-sized perennial, with a spreading nature, reaching a height of 17″-20″. The soft, bright green leaves are small, close-set and toothed along the margins. The parent plant for this hybrid is Spearmint, so the aroma is also clearly spearmint. The flowers are lavender to lilac and appear in mid to late summer. The botanical name for Moroccan Mint is Mentha spicata var. crispa, which is also the scientific name for other varieties, with the addition of specific cultivar names, eg: Moroccan Mint.

The aroma and taste are sweet and minty, which seems obvious, but appropriate for one of the most useful culinary mints. Moroccan Mint is combined with green tea and sugar to make the drink Moroccan Tea. This beverage is popular in the Arabian nations and often takes on a ceremonial purpose, especially when the tea is made for guests by the man of the house. Moroccan Tea may also be called Tuareg or Maghrebi and Moroccan Mint is grown especially for this purpose.