Essential oils from schinus molle L. berries and leaves

✍ Scribed by Massimo Maffei; Franco Chialva

• Book ID: 102205027
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 226 KB
• Volume: 5
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0882-5734
• DOI: 10.1002/ffj.2730050109

✦ Synopsis

Essential oils from Schinus molle L. berries and leaves were analysed by means of GC-MS. Berry oil contained mainly a-and P-phellandrene (55.4% and 15.4% respectively) along with limonene (14.3%). Leaf oil which also contained a-and 6-phellandrene and limonene (3O.2%, 9.6% and 9.3% respectively), was characterizied by the presence of sesquiterpenes such as elemol (13.3%), germacrene-D (5.2%), y-eudesmol (3.2%) and T-cadinol (4.7%), which were present only in traces in the oil from the berries.