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14.02.2024 - 18:21 / gardenerspath.com / Kristine Lofgren
How to Plant and Grow Aztec Sweet Herb Phyla dulcis
If you’re avoiding white sugar but long for that sugary sweetness, there’s an easy-to-grow herb you can cultivate to get your fix.
It’s not a showstopper. This isn’t an herb that can serve double-duty as an ornamental and an edible, and it looks kind of weedy in the garden. But rub a leaf between your fingers, and you’ll understand just how special this plant is.
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The deep green, purple-green, or reddish green lanceolate leaves resemble spearmint, but the scent and flavor is totally unique.
Nibble or smell the foliage, and you’ll be treated to an intensely sweet treat with just a hint of camphor to temper the experience.
Aztec sweet herb has long been used to add sweetness to meals, but it’s primarily employed as a medicinal remedy. These days, I think it has massive potential as a kitchen herb for those of us who are avoiding table sugar.
However you intend to use it, you have to figure out how to make it happy in the garden first if you want to produce your own crop. Right?
We’ve got you covered. This guide will make it easy to grow Aztec sweet herb. Here’s what we’ll go over to help make that happen:
Ready for some sugar, spice, and everything nice? Here we go!
What Is Aztec Sweet Herb?Also known as Aztec sweet herb (sometimes spelled sweetherb), honeyherb, Mayan mint, yerba dulce, bushy lippia, or Mexican lippia, Phyla dulcis (syn. P. scaberrima or Lippia dulcis) is an herbaceous perennial native to the Caribbean Islands, Central America, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela.
It was known as Tzopelic Xlhuitl to the Aztecs in the Nahuatl language. The leaves
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