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Re: What is Turkestani Oregano?/building Origanum web pages

Michael,

Don't be too hasty about giving up on some of the hairier oreganos.  I would 
offer this tidbit.  I currently have growing in my gardens (some are up to 
2 feet tall) and I don't think you can say your summers exceed ours in heat 
and humidity in Houston, TX.

Greek Oregano, Italian Oregano, Origanum maru, Turkestani (O.v. gracile), 
Golden Oregano (O.v. 'aureum').  Another Origanum species I have is Sweet 
marjoram.  I believe the Greek Oregano is a pretty hairy species and very
nice culinary oregano. 

At 12:08 AM 5/22/98 PDT, you wrote:
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>			    MEDIT-PLANTS Digest 889
>Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 15:40:15 +1000
>From: Michael Bailes <frgntgar@ozemail.com.au>
>To: medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
>Subject: Re: What is Turkestani Oregano?/building Origanum web pages
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> There is tremendous
>>confusion among this group of plants, perhaps because of the similarities,
>>tendency to hybridize with other species, and the causal manner in which
>>herbalist and culinary types classify them.
>YES YES YES
>in Australia seedling growers grow a silly tastless plant they call oregano.
>God knows where they get the seed from but it tastes like grass.
>There must be an awful lot of meals ruined by it
>We grow two types of Oregano.
>One I believe is a wild form grown in lebanon.
>It has a fabulous flavour and is a vigorous hardy plant.
>Another is similar but has golden leaves, not quite as stron in flacvour
>but avery pretty groundcover in  asunny well drained spot.
>I wouldnt even try to botanically classify them.
>Happy to send pics if you want.
>I have given up dreaming about having Ditany of Crete which I don't think
>is in Australia.
>and some of the hairyer types of Oregano would not survive our summer
humidty.
>
>Michael Bailes.

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