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Clinopodium menthifolium (Host) Stace - syn.Calamintha officinalis (Moench) auct.; Calamintha sylvatica Bromf.; Satureja menthifolia (Host) Fritsch - Lamiaceae - wood calamint, Bergminze, Wald-Bergminze

Perennial herb, up to 80cm tall, native to Central and South Europe, Western Asia; leaves ovate, serrate; flowers purple to violet.

From the essential oil of Calamintha sylvatica Bromf. subsp. sylvatica, thirty-three constituents were identified at three different development stages (pre-blossom, full blossom and post-blossom). Main component was cis-piperitone oxide (66.6-74.6%), minor ones isomenthone (0.6-13.4%), menthone (0.2-5.5%), cis-sabinene hydrate (2.0-4.4%), limonene (1.4-3.0%), and β-caryophyllene (1.1-4.4%). Isomenthone is significantly present in the pre-blossom phase (13.4%), in other phases its content is relatively low (1.9% and 0.6%).
[The volatile constituents of Calamintha sylvatica Bromf. subsp. sylvatica., Kitic, D., Palic, R., Ristic, M., Sojanovic, G., Jovanovic, T., Flavour and fragrance journal, Vol.16(4), 2001, 257-258]

cis-piperitone oxide

„Essential oil yield and composition of wild and cultivated Calamintha sylvatica Bromf. ssp. ascendens (Jordan) P.W. Ball (Lamiaceae) were studied using GC and GC/MS. Essential oil yields were very similar in both conditions, although plant growth was greater in the cultivated plants. Isomenthone (36.8–43.3%) proved to be the main component of oil in both cases.“
[Essential oils in Calamintha sylvatica Bromf. ssp. ascendens (Jordan) PW Ball: wild and cultivated productions and antifungal activity., Hidalgo, P.J., Libera, J.L., Santos, J.A., LaFont, F., Castellanos, C., Palomino, A., Román, M., Journal of Essential Oil Research, Vol.14(1), 2002, 68-71]

„C.sylvatica oil yields varied from 0.11% up to 0.94%. In all samples, cis-piperitone oxide was a major compound… (48.9–59.2%). In the examined samples, oil composition appeared to vary more according to geographical rather than genetic factors.“
[Essential Oil of Calamintha sylvatica Bromf. and Calamintha vardarensis Šilic., Mimica-Dukić, N., Couladis, M., Tzakou, O., Jančić, R., Slavkovska, V., Journal of Essential Oil Research, Vol.16(3), 2004, 219-222]

„The composition of the essential oil obtained from the dried flowering aerial parts of Calamintha officinalis Moench (Lamiaceae) was analyzed by GC and GC-MS. Thirty-four components have been identified in the oil of C. officinalis. The major constituents of this oil were β-bisabolene (9.9%), germacrene D (7.6%), β-bourbonene (7.4%) and piperitenone (5.3%).“
[The Essential Oil Composition of Calamintha officinalis Moench from Iran., Morteza-Semnani, K., Akbarzadeh, M., Journal of Essential Oil Bearing Plants, Vol.10(6), 2007, 494-498]

English Botany, or Coloured Figures of British Plants, ed.3 [B] [J.E.Sowerby et al], vol.7 t.1052 (1867)
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