Essential oils from some Artemisia species growing spontaneously in North-West Italy

✍ Scribed by M. Mucciarelli; R. Caramiello; M. Maffei; F. Chialva

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 565 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0882-5734
• DOI: 10.1002/ffj.2730100105

✦ Synopsis

A . vulgaris L., growing spontaneously in the north-west Italian Alps. GC-MS analyses were camed out in order to determine the percentage composition of the oils. The data obtained were statistically processed in order to partition the species according to their oil composition. The results showed the presence of two main groups of plants. The first group composed of A . genipi, A . umbelliformis and A . petrosa was characterized by the presence of a-thujone, while camphor and l,&cineole characterized the oil of the remaining plants.