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Plant Pimenta racemosa (Myrtaceae)

Common Names
Bayrum Tree; West Indian Bay
How this plant is used
Food
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
OCIMENE 2 Leaf 100.0 340.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
OCTADECANE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
P-CYMEN-8-OL 0 Leaf 0.0 18.0 -0.06 Duke, 1992 *
P-CYMENE 16 Leaf 16.0 750.0 0.22 Duke, 1992 *
PENTACOSANE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
PENTADECANE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
SABINENE 5 Plant not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TERPINEN-4-OL 23 Leaf 0.0 215.0 -0.22 Duke, 1992 *
TERPINEN-4-YL-ACETATE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TERPINOLINE 0 Leaf 0.0 100.0 not available Duke, 1992 *
TETRACOSANE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TETRADECANE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TETROCOSANE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Duke, 1992 *
THUJONE 17 Leaf 0.0 16.0 -0.74 Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-3-HEXENOL 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRANS-LINALOOL-OXIDE 0 Leaf 0.0 18.0 0.15 Duke, 1992 *
TRANS-OCIMENE 0 Leaf 210.0 715.0 1.55 Duke, 1992 *
TRICOSANE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
TRIDECANE 0 Leaf not available not available not available Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
VERBENOL 0 Leaf 0.0 16.0 -1.00 Duke, 1992 *
View the list of ubiquitous chemicals
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
Fungiphilic 1 J. Agric. Food Chem. 43: 2283.
Fungistat 3 Duke, 1992 *
GABA-nergic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gastroprotective 2 Duke, 1992 *
Glaucomagenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Glutathionigenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Gram(+)icide 1 Duke, 1992 *
Gram(-)icide 1 Duke, 1992 *
GST-Inducer 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hallucinogenic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatocarcinogenic 2 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatoprotective 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hepatotonic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Herbicide 11 Keeler, R.F. and Tu, A.T. eds. 1991. Toxicology of Plant and Fungal Compounds. (Handbook of Natural Toxins Vol. 6) Marcel Dekker, Inc. NY. 665 pp.
Histaminic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypnotic 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypotensive 1 Duke, 1992 *
Hypothermic 5 Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Immunomodulator 1 Duke, 1992 *
Inflammatory 1 Duke, 1992 *