Provencal chimera

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My neighbor Noriko Cuevas found this intergeneric rosemary-lavender hybrid in her garden and it is now growing in mine. I think it might be a chimera since each stem produces two kinds of leaf, short rosemary-scented ones and long, lavender-scented ones. If it is a hybrid and not a chimera I would be interested to know whether combining the metabolisms of these two classic fragrant Lamiaceae produces any new terpenes. Is anyone with a GC-MS from Givaudan or IFF lurking?

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