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Dittany of Crete


Untitled Document Name: Dittany of Crete

Botanical Name: Origanum dictamnus

Zone: 7-11

Soil: Average, well drained.

Exposure: Full Sun

Bloom Color: Pink flowers

Description: Produces trailing pink flowers that resemble Hops flowers, and it's leaves are round, fuzzy, silver-grey. Extremely oranamental.

It is indigenous to Crete, Greece, where it symbolizes birth and love. Its local name in Crete ("love") is due to the fact that it likes to grow in very steep slopes on the rocky mountains of Crete. The young men used to show their courage and their love to their beloved ones by risking their lives picking it up and offering it to them.

It was used in medicine in Ancient Greece for its pharmaceutical properties on stomach aches and complaints of the digestive system. It is thought that wild beasts used to eat it to help them heal themselves when injured by hunters.

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