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Plant Aralia spinosa (Araliaceae)

Common Names
Devil's Walking Stick, Hercules' Club, Prickly Ash, American Angelica Tree
How this plant is used
Medicinal

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Chemical Name Sort descending Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
OLEIC-ACID 18 Seed not available 102000.0 -0.14 Kleiman, R., Spencer, G. F. 1982. Search for New Industrial Oils: 16. Umbelliflorae-Seed Oils Rich in Petroselinic Acid. J. Amer. Oil Chem. Soc., 59: 29-32.
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Fruit not available 11.3 -1.33 Ratnayake, S., McLaughlin, J. L. 1993. Petroselinic Acid from the Ripe Berries of Aralia spinosa. Int. J. Pharmacog., 31(1): 35-37.
PETROSELINIC-ACID 0 Seed not available 711000.0 0.73 Kleiman, R., Spencer, G. F. 1982. Search for New Industrial Oils: 16. Umbelliflorae-Seed Oils Rich in Petroselinic Acid. J. Amer. Oil Chem. Soc., 59: 29-32.
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