Pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium)

This stamp highlights a traditional medicinal plant, pennyroyal (Mentha pulegium), highlighting its importance in popular knowledge and Tunisian rural practices linked to health and the use of natural resources. The illustration associates the plant represented with its visible roots with a gathering scene, emphasizing the direct link between humans and the earth, as well as the empirical knowledge transmitted from generation to generation. This staging highlights the value of attentive agricultural work, respect for natural cycles and the rational use of plants for their therapeutic virtues. In the Tunisian context, this stamp is part of an approach to promoting botanical heritage and local medicinal traditions, recalling the central role of plants in daily life, the rural economy and cultural identity, while affirming the importance of preserving this knowledge as essential components of the national heritage.