Hi!
I've bought some nepeta cataria (catmint) seeds from ebay and plant them. After three and a half weeks, the plants are about 10cm (4 inches) tall. They smell a lot like catnip, but when I compare their leaves with some photos of catnip found on the internet, they look a lot different. This is my first time growing nepeta cataria, so I don't know if leaves change their shape later in time, or is this some other plant? I'll add a picture of the plants.
Thank you very much for your help!
Thought it wasn't catnip... Yes, it looks like rue, but I'm not sure, it smells just like catnip or some other mint, but I don't know how the rue smells?applestar wrote:Definitely not catmint. ...maybe Rue? (Ruta graveolens)
Thanks!
PS: Maybe smell changes over time? From what I've read on other forums, rue has a bad smell, so I'm not really sure it's rue. Whatever it is, it probably already was in soil before the mint seeds, since I've planted quite a lot of them, but here's only 8 plants, so it's probably (hopefully) not a scam...
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