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Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
U.S. Department of Agriculture

Plant Juniperus communis (Cupressaceae)

Common Names
Common Juniper, Juniper
How this plant is used
Generally Recognized as Safe

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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
L-TARTARIC-ACID 0 Leaf *
LAURIC-ACID 7 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
LEUCOANTHOCYANIN 1 Fruit List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
LIMONENE 60 Essential Oil 31000.0 -0.56 *
LIMONENE 60 Fruit 76.0 910.0 -0.62 List, P.H. and Horhammer, L., Hager's Handbuch der Pharmazeutischen Praxis, Vols. 2-6, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1969-1979.
LIMONENE 60 Fruit Essent. Oil *
LIMONENE-PEROXIDE 0 Fruit Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
LIMONENE-PEROXIDE 0 Fruit Essent. Oil *
LINALOL 0 Plant *
LINALOOL 53 Plant *
LINALYL-ACETATE 7 Plant *
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Fruit Leung, A. Y. and Foster, S. 1995. Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, New York. 649 pp.
LINOLEIC-ACID 27 Plant *
LINOLENIC-ACID 0 Plant *
LONGIFOLENE 0 Plant J.S. Glasby Dict.Pls Containing 2ndary Metabolite. 1991.
LUPEOL 21 Stem *
MAGNESIUM 65 Fruit 9.0 30.0 -0.97 *
MALONIC-ACID 1 Leaf *
MANGANESE 14 Fruit 2.0 6.3 -0.36 *
MANOOL 2 Leaf 87.5 *
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