The Typical Myrtle (Myrtus communis0, is wide-spread in the Mediterranean and beyond sea location and is also by far the most generally developed. It was holy to Aphrodite. The other types, Saharan Myrtle M. nivellei, is restrained to the Tassili n'Ajjer mountain ranges in lower Algeria and the Tibesti Mountains in Chad, where it happens in little places of short relict do near the center of the Sahara Desert; it is outlined as an vulnerable types. However, some botanists are not assured that M. nivellei is properly unique to be handled as a individual types.
