Editing Peppermint (section)

=== Cultivars ===
Several [[cultivar]]s have been selected for garden use:

* ''Mentha'' × ''piperita'' 'Candymint' has reddish stems.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Herbarist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4cZJAAAAYAAJ|access-date=24 July 2013|year=1997|publisher=Herb Society of America.|page=39|archive-date=10 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610185648/https://books.google.com/books?id=4cZJAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* ''Mentha'' × ''piperita'' 'Chocolate Mint'. Its flowers open from the bottom up; its flavour is reminiscent of the flavour in [[Andes Chocolate Mints]], a popular confection.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mountainvalleygrowers.com/menpiperitachocolate.htm |title=''Mentha piperita'' cv. Chocolate Mint |publisher=Mountainvalleygrowers.com |access-date=2013-07-24 |archive-date=2013-04-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130402163951/https://www.mountainvalleygrowers.com/menpiperitachocolate.htm |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Rovira2008">{{cite book|author=Dolf De Rovira|title=Dictionary of Flavors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=avYMy82EBuAC&pg=PA420|access-date=24 July 2013|date=28 February 2008|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-38484-8|pages=420–|archive-date=27 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427011425/https://books.google.com/books?id=avYMy82EBuAC&pg=PA420|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1091144.html |title=Mentha x piperita 'Chocolate Mint' : peppermint |publisher=Hortiplex.gardenweb.com |date=2007-09-12 |access-date=2013-07-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006175843/https://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1091144.html |archive-date=2014-10-06 }}</ref>
* ''Mentha'' × ''piperita'' 'Citrata' includes a number of varieties including [[Eau de Cologne mint]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1025619.html |title=Mentha x piperita 'Citrata' : eau de cologne mint |publisher=Hortiplex.gardenweb.com |date=2007-09-12 |access-date=2013-07-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006174814/https://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1025619.html |archive-date=2014-10-06 }}</ref> grapefruit mint, lemon mint,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1025621.html |title=Mentha x piperita var. citrata : lemon mint |publisher=Hortiplex.gardenweb.com |date=2007-09-12 |access-date=2013-07-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728095336/https://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1025621.html |archive-date=2014-07-28 }}</ref> and orange mint. Its leaves are aromatic and hairless.
* ''Mentha'' × ''piperita'' 'Crispa' has wrinkled leaves.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1091140.html |title=Mentha x piperita 'Crispa' : eau de cologne mint |publisher=Hortiplex.gardenweb.com |date=2007-09-12 |access-date=2013-07-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006174224/https://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1091140.html |archive-date=2014-10-06 }}</ref>
* ''Mentha'' × ''piperita'' 'Lavender Mint'<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1091143.htmlburl |title=HortiPlex Plant Database: Info, Images and Links on Thousands of Plants |publisher=Hortiplex.gardenweb.com |access-date=2013-07-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006174816/https://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1091143.htmlburl |archive-date=2014-10-06 }}</ref>
* ''Mentha'' × ''piperita'' 'Lime Mint' has lime-scented foliage.<ref>{{cite book|title=Harrowsmith Country Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=255LAAAAYAAJ|access-date=24 July 2013|year=1990|publisher=Camden House Pub.|page=48|archive-date=5 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160505071333/https://books.google.com/books?id=255LAAAAYAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1091141.html |title=''Mentha'' x ''piperita'' 'Lime Mint' : eau de cologne mint |publisher=Hortiplex.gardenweb.com |date=2007-09-12 |access-date=2013-07-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006180117/https://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1091141.html |archive-date=2014-10-06 }}</ref>
* ''Mentha'' × ''piperita'' 'Variegata' has mottled green and pale yellow leaves.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1091142.html |title=''Mentha'' x ''piperita'' 'Variegata' : variegated mint |publisher=Hortiplex.gardenweb.com |date=2007-09-12 |access-date=2013-07-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006180119/https://hortiplex.gardenweb.com/plants/p1/gw1091142.html |archive-date=2014-10-06 }}</ref>

Commercial cultivars may include:
* Dulgo pole<ref name=seof>{{cite web  | last = Stanev  | first = S.  | author2 = V. D. Zheljazkov  | title = Study on essential oil and free menthol accumulation in 19 cultivars, populations, and clones of peppermint (''Mentha'' × ''piperita'')  | url = https://www.actahort.org/books/629/629_21.htm  | access-date = 6 June 2009  | archive-date = 26 August 2009  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090826214751/https://www.actahort.org/books/629/629_21.htm  | url-status = live  }}</ref>
* Zefir<ref name=seof />
* Bulgarian population #2<ref name=seof />
* Clone 11-6-22<ref name=seof />
* Clone 80-121-33<ref name=seof />
* Mitcham Digne 38<ref name=oppr>{{cite journal |title=An optimising protocol for protoplast regeneration of three peppermint cultivars ( Mentha x piperita) |last1=Jullien |first1=Frédéric |last2=Diemer |first2=Florence |last3=Colson |first3=Monique |last4=Faure |first4=Olivier |journal=Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture |volume=54 |pages=153–9 |year=1998 |doi=10.1023/A:1006185103897 |issue=3|s2cid=26626639 }}</ref>
* Mitcham Ribecourt 19<ref name=oppr />
* 'Todd's Mitcham', a [[verticillium wilt]]-resistant cultivar produced from a breeding and test program of [[atomic gardening]] at [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]] from the mid-1950s<ref name=oppr /><ref name="Craker-et-al-2003">{{cite journal | last1=Craker | first1=Lyle E. | last2=Gardner | first2=Zoë | last3=Etter | first3=Selma C. | title=Herbs in American Fields: A Horticultural Perspective of Herb and Medicinal Plant Production in the United States, 1903 to 2003 | journal=[[HortScience]] | publisher=[[American Society for Horticultural Science]] | volume=38 | issue=5 | year=2003 | issn=0018-5345 | doi=10.21273/hortsci.38.5.977 | pages=977–983 | s2cid=54203253| doi-access=free }}</ref>
* 'Refined Murray', also verticillium-resistant<ref name="Craker-et-al-2003" />
* 'Roberts Mitcham', also verticillium-resistant<ref name="Craker-et-al-2003" /> and also the product of [[mutation breeding]]