National Plant Collection of Origanum vulgare cvs.

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Desiderata 2026
(plants I am seeking)

Origanum vulgare var. album [listed by RHS]

Origanum vulgare var. album 'Aureum Album' [listed by RHS with no source - but name makes no sense anyway]

Origanum vulgare ‘Aureum Green’    [listed by RHS with no source - name makes no sense]

Origanum vulgare ‘Bury Hill’    [listed by RHS with no source]

Origanum vulgare ‘Compactum Album’    [listed by RHS with no source]

Origanum vulgare ‘Corrine Tremaine’   [listed by RHS but no longer available]

Origanum vulgare ‘Diabolo'   [listed by RHS with no source]

Origanum vulgare 'Greensleeves'   [listed by RHS but no longer available]

Origanum vulgare 'Nyamba'   [listed by RHS with no source]

Origanum vulgare ‘Tracy's Yellow’    [listed by RHS with no source]

Origanum vulgare 'Vulkan'^PBR    [listed by RHS with no source]

Origanum vulgare ‘Webb's White’    [listed by RHS with no source]

Origanum vulgare yellow, long leaved   [listed by RHS with no source - sounds like 'Acorn Bank' which was available for a long time before it was given that cultivar name]

Origanum vulgare subspecies
details and distribution on Plants of the World Online [POWO], which recognises the following 6 subspecies only.

Origanum vulgare subsp. glandulosum (Desf.) Ietsw.    [Algeria, Tunisia]

Origanum vulgare subsp. gracile (K.Koch) Ietsw.    [Turkey to Pakistan]

Origanum vulgare subsp. hirtum (Link) A.Terracc.     [Croatia to Turkey]

Origanum vulgare subsp. virens (Hoffmanns. & Link) Bonnier & Layens    [Portugal, Spain & Morocco]

Origanum vulgare subsp. viridulum (Martrin-Donos) Nyman     [Spain to India]

Origanum vulgare subsp. vulgare [Ireland to Siberia & China, naturalised in North America]

Other species

Origanum majorana 'Aureum'    [sweet or knotted marjoram]

Origanum onites 'Limelight'    [pot marjoram]

Origanum onites 'Noa'    [pot marjoram]

Origanum onites, from a known wild collection    [pot marjoram]    [POWO says from Sicily, Greece, Turkey, naturalised Tunisia & Cyprus]