Herbarium of the Bizarre

Catnip

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Featuring several detours into catmint, which is almost, but not quite, the same thing.


Article on catnip from my defunct blog: https://encyclopaediafelidae.com/crazy-for-catnip/


Music by James Milor from Pixabay


Information provided by:

  1. Catnip: Its raison d’être by T. Eisner (1964)
  2. https://www.bhg.com/gardening/flowers/perennials/catmint-vs-catnip/
  3. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181211103125.htm
  4. https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/catnip-nepeta-cataria/
  5. https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=e433
  6. https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/nepeta-cataria/
  7. Catnip and oestrous behaviour in the cat by G. F. Palen and G. V. Goddard (1966) https://doi.org/10.1016/S0003-3472(66)80100-8
  8. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/08/010828075659.htm
  9. Inheritance of the catnip response in domestic cats by N. B. Todd (1962) https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.jhered.a107121
  10. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-how-does-catnip-work-on-cats/
  11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catnip
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