Mint Marigold
Tagetes lucida
A native of Mexico that is widely used as a tea and cooking spice. Is used in place of tarragon spice. Normally blooms in the fall. Perennial.
Some interesting facts.
Tagetes lucida, to a great degree described as a powerful psychedelic form of the marigold flower, was first referenced by the Aztecs.
The Tagetes, or marigold, species dispersed quickly all around the globe as ornamental plants. They started in the Americas, coming from its native North American southwest scattering to Argentina
Numerous species of Tagetes are accessible in many cultivated kinds and forms, and are frequently hard to differentiate from one another.
The Aztecs utilized all the species of Tagetes for healthful purposes like with a tea cooked from the extract of the fresh herbage to the treatment of hiccups and diarrhea.
In India, a juice made from its recently pressed leaves is dispensed to treat eczema. In Argentina, the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling of the leaves is drank for coughs, and when used locally on the skin, it is known as an insect repellent. In Mexico, juice that has been pressed from the herbage or crushed leaves are mixed with water or wine and drunk as an aphrodisiac.
In Mexico, they are known there as flores del muerto, or “flowers of the dead.”
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