Plant Oenothera biennis (Onagraceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Common Names

Evening-Primrose

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
SYRINGIC-ACID	6	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TANNIN	35	Herb	not available	110000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXASTEROL	2	Inflorescence	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
TARAXASTEROL	2	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
THREONINE	4	Seed	3500.0	4600.0	-0.79	Duke, 1992 *
TRYPTOPHAN	29	Seed	2400.0	16000.0	4.32	Duke, 1992 *
TYROSINE	8	Seed	3400.0	3629.0	-0.95	Duke, 1992 *
VALINE	3	Seed	5200.0	8645.0	-0.41	Duke, 1992 *
WATER	0	Seed	63000.0	83000.0	-0.55	Duke, 1992 *
ZINC	77	Seed	70.0	90.0	1.27	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Uterotrophic	1	Journal of Medicinal Food 2: 227.1999.
Vasodilator	9	Duke, 1992 *
VEGF-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Vulnerary	3	Duke, 1992 *
Xanthine-Oxidase-Inhibitor	5	Hatano, T., Yasuhara, T., Yoshihara, R., Agata, I., Noro, T., and Okuda, T. 1989. Effects of Interaction of Tannins with Co-existing Substances.VII. Inhibitory Effects of Tannins Related Polyphenols on Xanthine Oxidase. Chem. Pharm. Bull. 38(5): 1224-1229