The essential oils of Eucalyptus camaldulensis and its natural hybrid (clone 583) from Morocco

✍ Scribed by Abdellah Farah; Mohamed Fechtal; Abdelaziz Chaouch; Saadia Zrira

• Book ID: 102202622
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 70 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0882-5734
• DOI: 10.1002/ffj.1114

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In this work, the essential oils of a natural E. camaldulensis (clone 583) hybrid were studied. Yield (ml/100 g dry weight) production was determined. This is higher than the parental species (E. camaldulensis), which has 0.79% of essential oils vs. 0.90% for the hybrid species. About 40 components were detected by chromatography analysis. Hybrid essential oils are richer in 1,8‐cineole (84.92%) than the parental species (42.35%). The α‐pinene content of the hybrid is inferior to that of parental species (2.5% vs. 28.30% for E. camaldulensis). Use of the crystallization method allowed us to obtain approximately 75% of essential oils, with about 95% of 1,8‐cineole. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.