Tropical Bush Mint (Satureja-viminea)

[spencerw]

check out my newest blog post!

https://tropicalselfsufficiency.com/bush...a-viminea/

[lquade]

i like the no-slug issue. so you haven't found them climbing this? i am constantly fighting the snails and semi-slugs here and the incidents of rat lungworm seem to be increasing.

[kalianna]

Thanks for posting this. I'll keep my eye out for this plant. I'm also curious as to what the tall yellow flowers are. Carolina Moonlight or....??????

[ElysianWort]

Love it! This type of post/ thread is right up my alley. Thanks for sharing spencerw!

[dayna]

Thanks for another good blog post. Let me know if I could buy or trade for some of your sweet pepper seeds. I grow a ton of different types and am interested in adding this one to my garden.

Dayna

www.E-Z-Caps.com

[bananahead]

lquad.... rat lungworm increasing? how you see this?

"...The new 3 cases (last week) bring the statewide total to five confirmed in 2019 and 10 in 2018,..."

fyi, in Hilo over 90% of rats tested (600+ rats) have the worm, yet of the 200K people + tourists, we have these micro numbers above 5 cases in 6 months...
its rare, its overrated, its NOT that deadly AT ALL, and mainly stupid people get it, unattended kids eating slugs, dirty watercatchments, lower Puna jungle dweller woofers/lemmings w/69IQ who dont use clean water to wash veggies, or copper bands on tables, slugo, cats etc. or just plain eat the slug on purpose.

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as far as the non native mint family plant goes... its a known invasive plant, and we already have over 20,000 introduced problems here... try saving a critically endangered (understatement) native mint... the rarest family in the World.... the Haplostachys of Hawaii

Haplostachys haplostachya, honohono ...of the 5 Haplostachys known to science over last 240 yrs, 4 are gone forever, extinct!.. this one is barely hanging on, it ONLY lives up on the saddle of the Big Island... critically endangered! (you can see it outplanted on PuuHuluhulu)
the military is credited for keeping it from going extinct.. the Pohakuloa Training Center has the largest pop of these plants in World...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplostachys_haplostachya





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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha

[ElysianWort]

Straight from the wikipedia link that bananahead posted about growing the endemic mint instead of the other mint that the topic is about:

"The herbage, (Haplostachys haplostachya, honohono) lacks the minty taste and scent of other mints"

Hmm, which type to grow?... This seems like a common sense or logic issue.

[spencerw]

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Originally posted by lquade

i like the no-slug issue. so you haven't found them climbing this? i am constantly fighting the snails and semi-slugs here and the incidents of rat lungworm seem to be increasing.

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nope havent noticed them climbing it. i live in a pretty balanced ecosystem so i dont have too many slugs here.

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Originally posted by kalianna

Thanks for posting this. I'll keep my eye out for this plant. I'm also curious as to what the tall yellow flowers are. Carolina Moonlight or....??????

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they are typical weedy crotalaria spp. you see them all over the roadsides. amazing nitrogen fixer and bushy sticky mulch material.

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Originally posted by dayna

Thanks for another good blog post. Let me know if I could buy or trade for some of your sweet pepper seeds. I grow a ton of different types and am interested in adding this one to my garden.

Dayna

www.E-Z-Caps.com

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ive got a bit of seed right now. could trade for other peppers! that would be cool

bananahead. are you aware of the red tape and sourcing issues of getting rare/endangered plants. its quite difficult. this mint that im describing is a lowland specie. all of our rare mints are high elevation plants so they wouldnt be able to jump into that ecosystem anyway. ive seen about 4 of our native mints in the wild as ive spent 3 years doing restoration on mauna kea. and also not many people actually live in that habitat (except the military and at waikii) so not many people would be able to grow that plant successfully due to the necessity of cold. would it be better for people to be growing plants out of ecosystems and they kill them or to keep on planting them in their habitats, even though they are so critically falling apart. and yes the military is credited for their saving of endangered plants, however they should also be credited for habitat destruction/degradation and fragmentation prior to trying to save species.
dont get me wrong im not trying to convince anyone to not grow native plants, however its just an unrealistic comparison in my opinion.

[dayna]

Spencerw are you on facebook? Maybe shoot me a message on there https://www.facebook.com/dayna.robertson

Dayna

www.E-Z-Caps.com