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Accession Data

Phyla scaberrima

Common Name: Aztec Sweet Herb

Family: Verbenaceae

Synonym(s): Lippia dulcis Trevir.

Country of Origin: Mexico to Venezuela, Caribbean

Description: Mexican herb used since at least the time of the Aztecs for coughs, colds, bronchitis, asthma, and colic. Leaves contain the intensely sweet compound hernandulcin (1000 times sweeter than sugar) but high camphor content makes them unsuitable for use as a sugar substitute. Fast growing, low creeper, with small white flowers; excellent in hanging baskets. Known by the Aztec as "Tzopelic Xlhuitl".

Accession Data

USDA Zone: 9b-11

Accession #: 198900074

Accession Date: 1989-12-31

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 1304

Quantity: 2

Source: Smith Col./seed

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: euasterid I

Order: Lamiales

Family: Verbenaceae

Tribe: Lantaneae

Flowering Data:

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References

  1. Richter's WWW Herb Page
  2. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Accessed 7 May 2015.
  3. WCSP (2015). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Accessed 7 May 2015.

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Phyla scaberrima