Identifying the type of mint. Just to confuse the picture even more, there is a chocolate mint which has purplish stolons. There are, in fact, hundreds of varieties of mint, some of which are commercially grown for oil extraction or for leaf drying, and a lot of which haven't even been given names, being known as Mint 341, etc.
Full Definition of WATERCOLOR. 1. : a paint of which the liquid is a water dispersion of the binding material (as glue, casein, or gum). 2. : the art or method of painting with watercolors. 3. : a picture or design executed in watercolors.
A Country House and Park, Thomas Malton II (1748-1804), 1779, watercolour. Watercolour paint is made by mixing pigments with a binder, usually gum arabic, and then applying it with water to a support such as vellum (fine animal skin) or paper. The water evaporates and the binder fixes the pigment to the support.