Melissa

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Melissa >

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Read about Melissa in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Melissa (Greek, bee; because the bees are fond of balm). labiatae Hardy perennial herbs from Europe and western Asia, one of which is Balm (see Vol. I. p. 442). Plants erect, leafy and branching, with broad opposite lvs.: fls. white or yellowish, in axillary clusters, somewhat secund; corolla exserted from the long-campanu- late calyx, curved, enlarged above and naked within, 2-lipped, the upper lip erect and notched and the lower one spreading and 3-lobed; stamens 4, didynamous, ascending and approximate under the upper lip; style cleft at top: nutlets smooth. — Species 3 or 4, in Medit. region and Cent. Asia. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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