Artemisia herba-alba Asso - Asteraceae - white wormwood, armoise herbe blanche (fr.)

Upright, shrubby perennial, 0.20-0.40m high, native to Morocco and the Mediterranean region; leaves grey-green, pinnately divided, covered with fine glandular hairs, strongly aromatic.

The essential oil of the herb is used in perfumery as //armoise oil//.

Major components of Artemisia herba-alba Asso essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation growing in eastern Morocco (Taforalt) were found to be camphor (43.0%), camphene (7.2%), 1,8-cineole (7.0%), [[https://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=R233093|filifolone]] (7.0%), borneol (4.8%), and bornyl acetate (3,7%). \\
[Imelouane, B., et al. "Essential oil composition and antimicrobial activity of Artemisia herba-alba Asso grown in Morocco." Banat's Journal of Biotechnology 1.2 (2010)]

| {{:camphor.jpg|camphor}} \\ camphor |  {{:thujone.jpg|thujone}} \\ [[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thujone|(α + β) thujone]] | {{:1.8cineole.jpg|1,8-cineole}} \\ 1,8-cineole |

Oils of commerce contained mainly: \\
α-thujone (42.4%), β-thujone (17.0%), camphor (15.1%), and 1,8-cineole (4.4%): \\
[[https://www.purenature.co.nz/site/purenature/images/ARMOISE-710.PNG]] \\
α-thujone (46.0%)%, camphor (22.4%), β-thujone (8.6%). \\
[[https://www.edenbotanicals.com/armoise-mugwort.html]]


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Boissier, E.P., Voyage botanique dans le midi d’Espagne, vol.1 t.94 (1839-1845) [J.C. Heyland] \\
[[http://botanicalillustrations.org/species.php?id_species=91942]]