AromaDb: A Database of Plant's Aroma Molecules

Plant Details

:Common Name
Wild basil
:Scientific Name
Clinopodium vulgare
:Introduction

Clinopodium vulgare, wild basil, is a species of flowering plant in the Lamiaceae family. Wild basil is a perennial rhizomatous herb with square, upright, hairy stems and opposite pairs of leaves. The leaves are hairy, ovate or lanceolate in shape, and have short or no stalks, wedge-shaped bases and bluntly-toothed margins. The inflorescence is a terminal spike consisting of several loose whorls of clusters of flowers growing in the axils of the leaves. Each flower has a short stalk, five sepals about 10 millimetres (0.39 in) long and five petals 12 to 15 millimetres (0.47 to 0.59 in) in length which are fused into a tube

: Details
The flowers are pink, violet or purple and have two lips. Each has four stamens, a long style and fused carpals.

Essential Oils

Serial No.Essential Oil Name
1Clinopodium vulgare essential oil

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