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Re: Is it Ditney of Crete?

At 12:12 PM 3/16/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I recently found a wonderful little plant with succulent type leaves.  The
>leaves
>are only about 3/4 inch in diameter and they are somewhat green and fuzzy.
>The
>people at the local nursery said they believed it was a Kalanchoe but I
>wonder.
>The leaves are very aromatic with a spicy-minty aroma and they said it is
>called
>"Menthol" in the trade.  I also have a thriving Ditney of Crete and these two
>plants look almost identical.  The newer one has a more upright character
>at the
>moment and the leaves on the older plant are a little shinier.  Otherwise they
>are virtually identical.  Is there a dwarf type Kalanchoe which is aromatic?
>Is there a possibility that Ditney of Crete would be considered a succulent?
>What are your thoughts?
>______________________________________________________________________
>
>       William M. Groth
>       groth@ruf.rice.edu
>       Senior Staff Auditor
>       Internal Audit Department
>       phone: (713) 527-8101 ext.3759
>	fax:  (713) 285-5927
>_____________________________________________________________________

William:

This sounds not like Coleus anboinicus, but like some of the Vicks plant
like Coleus/Plectranthus that are available from Well-Sweep Herb Farm (old
friends of the Hilltop Herb Farm people) or from Glasshouse Works:

plants@glasshouseworks.com
Glasshouse Works
P.O. Box 97
Church Street 
Stewart, OH 45778-0097 
Business phone 614-662-2142 (Information) 
Thomas R. Winn, co-owner 
Kenneth W. Frieling, co-owner
Order Phone:     800-837-2142 

In your climate, they will self-sow.  A piece of Coleus anboinicus, a close
relative, was once tossed out onto a shaded part of my gravel driveway.  Not
having been inadvertently crushed after two weeks of North Carolina summer,
I got tired of looking at it.  As I started to pick it up to toss it into
the compost pile, it resisted, having rooted quite well, even though the
weather had been hot and dry.

Rich Dufresne
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