Cut Leaf Mint Bush – Prostanthera incisa

Plant family: Lamiaceae

Plant origin: Eastern Australia.

Fruit description: Mint bush produces many small inedible nuts.

Flowers: Mint bush flowers are lovely and showy, mauve, fan shape, produced in Spring in profusion. Each is trumpet shaped.

Growing conditions: Mint bush grows fast as a dense low compact shrub to 1 metre tall, with pale green leaves. It makes a lovely hedge, especially lining a path where you can enjoy the lovely mint aroma as you brush past it. It thrives in well drained light soil. It likes part shade or morning sun and afternoon shade. It has lovely aromatic tiny leaves and comes back well after pruning. It is quite frost tolerant.

Uses: Use the flowers and fragrant foliage in flower arrangements and to scent the room. Use the bush to scent the path as you brush past. Essential oil can be obtained by distillation of the leaves and twigs. The leaves can be used in cooking as you would use common mint, such as to flavour drinks, salads, marinades, ice cream, sorbet, sauces and dressings.

Medicinal uses:

Pollination requirements: Self Pollinating.

Harvest time Harvest leaves anytime.

Plant relatives There are about 50 related Mint bushes occurring naturally in Australia. They are distantly related to the herb common mint, which is used in cooking.

Special features:

Grown by method: Cutting Grown Pot size: 140mm

Plant growing Height and Width for pots or in the ground planting: Grows to 1 metre high by 1 metre wide if Planted in a Pot. Grows 1 metre high by 1 metre wide if Planted in the Ground.

Shipping plant pot or planter bag size: 140mm