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Prostanthera cuneata Benth. - Lamiaceae - alpine mint bush, **Tasmanischer Minzestrauch**, Australminze

Evergreen, erect, compact subshrub or shrub, up to 50cm high; native to Australia (S.New South Wales to E. Victoria, extinct in Tasmania), cultivated elsewhere as ornamental; leaves strongly aromatic when crushed; flowers arranged singly in four to ten leaf axils near the ends of branchlets, petals are pale lavendar to almost white with reddish or purple blotches inside, 9-15 mm long. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostanthera_cuneata]]

Main components of the essential oil produced by hydrodistillation of the leaves were maaliol (34.5%), 1,8-cineole (24.2%), Z-dihydroagarofuran (15.8%), β-pinene (6.9%), α-pinene (3.0%), verbenone (1.9%), myrtenal (1.6%), germacrene D (1.6%), and limonene (1.5%). \\
[Sadgrove, Nicholas J., et al. "Prostanthera (lamiaceae) as a ‘cradle of incense’: Chemophenetics of rare essential oils from both new and forgotten australian ‘mint bush’species." Plants 9.11 (2020): 1570] 

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Prostanthera cuneata as garden plant (2024) [[https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/|CC BY-SA 3.0]], Author: Andreas Kraska