New crops with potential to produce essential oil with high linalool content helping preserve rosewood - An endangered Amazon species
New crops with potential to produce essential oil with high linalool content helping preserve rosewood - An endangered Amazon species
- Acta Horticulturae 629, p.39-43, 2004. .
Artículo
Rosewood (Aniba rosaeodora) is a world famous tree of the Lauraceae family, growing wild in the Amazon rainforest. Essential oil rich in linalool (up to 86 percent w/w) is extracted from its trunk and traded to the perfume industry. Nowadays, this essential oil is primarily used in the higher priced/fine perfumes, in earlier times the lumber was used for carpentry. The predatory exploration of the tree for extraction of the essential oil began in the 1920s. Because of the growing harvest pressure on the tree and the high demand for the oil, this species is now becoming endangered, despite many restrictive regulations by the Brazilian government designed to help in its conservation. Other Essential oils of Coriandrum sativum L, Bursera delpechiana, Citrus spp, Citrus aurantium subsp. amara L, Laurus nobilis L, Cinnmamomun camphora, Cinnamomun verum L, Matricaria chamomilla L, Salvia sclarea L., Lavandula officinalis Chaix et Villars and Ocimum basilicum, were analysed to determine the linalool content and the potential to substitute for rosewood oil. Despite the different chromatographic profile of rosewood essential oil and compared with, O. basilicum this plant species has agronomic advantages over the others, easier cultivation and propagation, that makes it a potential alternative source for the rosewood oil under certain circumstances.
AROMATIC PLANT
ENDANGERED SPECIES
PERFUME
Artículo
Rosewood (Aniba rosaeodora) is a world famous tree of the Lauraceae family, growing wild in the Amazon rainforest. Essential oil rich in linalool (up to 86 percent w/w) is extracted from its trunk and traded to the perfume industry. Nowadays, this essential oil is primarily used in the higher priced/fine perfumes, in earlier times the lumber was used for carpentry. The predatory exploration of the tree for extraction of the essential oil began in the 1920s. Because of the growing harvest pressure on the tree and the high demand for the oil, this species is now becoming endangered, despite many restrictive regulations by the Brazilian government designed to help in its conservation. Other Essential oils of Coriandrum sativum L, Bursera delpechiana, Citrus spp, Citrus aurantium subsp. amara L, Laurus nobilis L, Cinnmamomun camphora, Cinnamomun verum L, Matricaria chamomilla L, Salvia sclarea L., Lavandula officinalis Chaix et Villars and Ocimum basilicum, were analysed to determine the linalool content and the potential to substitute for rosewood oil. Despite the different chromatographic profile of rosewood essential oil and compared with, O. basilicum this plant species has agronomic advantages over the others, easier cultivation and propagation, that makes it a potential alternative source for the rosewood oil under certain circumstances.
AROMATIC PLANT
ENDANGERED SPECIES
PERFUME