Article Nº 3295 Plant Vol. III · p. 417
Sândalos
Vernacular name for water mint and its hybrid with spearmint, aromatic plants occasionally used in folk medicine.
The vernacular name of Mentha aquatica and of a hybrid produced by crossing this species with M. viridis. M. aquatica is common in the beds of many streams, and both it and the said hybrid (the former M. citrata) are aromatic Labiatae, used, though only occasionally, in rural folk medicine. M. aquatica is also known by the name of mentastro.