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What's up, HomeGirls? (Mexican Oregano)

Wuuuuut? No females got any Mexican oregano seed for my guy where's the love?  :snooty:
Oh ya, and none of that Mediterranean shit. You heard the man.
The ladies will come around. Ain't that right?
We know you're holding out on us with all the good... lip- hold on... lippa gravel- what is it? uh ya raviolis what he said.
It's ok, Rob. I got this.
 
Bicycle808 said:
Hey, sweetie...

Anyone got a lead for good Mexican Oregano seeds? I'm looking for Lippia graveolens. I am not currently interested in growing the Mediterranean shit (Origanum vulgare.)

I'm thinking about growing something other than chiles, for once.
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Good luck finding seeds, this plant is produced pretty much by propagation only.  You can get seed if you try hard enough, but then you might end up with a 0.005% germination rate which will probably be a weed seed that got accidently thrown in the pack.  Save yourself the trouble and get yourself a plant or 3 here:
 
https://www.richters.com/Web_store/web_store.cgi?product=X4318&show=all&prodclass=&cart_id=9768552.7153
 
Keep them in 15 gallon pots so you can bring them in every Fall or they will die a horrible death in NJ.  They'll need a south facing window or artificial light and a warm room in the Winter to keep them going until the following Summer.
 
Easier and cheaper to buy the dried spice by the pound and freeze it.  Sorry,
 
Bicycle808 said:
"Homegirl" is a figure of speech, in this case, intended to be gender neutral. I'm hollerin' at my male homegirls, too, ya know
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I totally knew that. I got a homegirl who plays for the dolphins.
 
J Food Sci. 2011 Mar;76(2):C309-17. doi: 10.1111/j.1750-3841.2010.02022.x.

Chemical composition and antimicrobial and spasmolytic properties of Poliomintha longiflora and Lippia graveolens essential oils.
Rivero-Cruz I[SIZE=.8461em]1[/SIZE], Duarte G, Navarrete A, Bye R, Linares E, Mata R.


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Abstract

In the present study, we reported a comparative analysis of the chemical composition and pharmacological properties of the essential oils obtained from 2 Mexican oreganos, Poliomintha longiflora and Lippia graveolens. The gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) profiles of the oils showed high amounts of oxygenated monoterpenes, mainly carvacrol (%[mg/100 g dry matter]) (18.36 [459.0] in P. longiflora and 13.48 [164.7] in L. graveolens). In addition, these oils contained marked quantities of p-cymene (14.09 [352.2] and 7.46 [37.3], respectively), β-caryophyllene oxide, β-caryophyllene, and carvacrol acetate.
 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21535751


 
 
Just checked but all i can find are small live plants. There was one vendor on Amazon that HAD seeds. I ran into the same issue with Laksa but lucked out finding plants locally. Now i just overwinter cuttings for the following year. Thank you for the thread though. In the spring i will look for Mexican oregano at the same garden shop. Dried is cheap at the market but its always nice to try homegrown.
 
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