Plant Syzygium aromaticum (Myrtaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Clove; Clovetree

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
ALPHA-AMORPHENE	0	Flower	not available	1.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-AMORPHENE	0	Fruit	not available	1.0	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-CADINENE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CADINENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Lawrence, B.M., Essential Oils 1976-1977, Essential Oils 1978, Essential Oils 1979-1980.
ALPHA-CADINOL	3	Leaf	5.0	8.0	-0.55	Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALPHA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CARYOPHYLLENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Williamson, E. M. and Evans, F. J., Potter's New Cyclopaedia of Botanical Drugs and Preparations, Revised Ed., Saffron Walden, the C. W. Daniel Co., Ltd., Essex UK, 362 pp, 1988, reprint 1989.
ALPHA-COPAENE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-COPAENE	0	Fruit	not available	1890.0	1.88	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-COPAENE	0	Leaf	not available	1135.0	6.40	Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALPHA-CUBEBENE	0	Flower	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CUBEBENE	0	Fruit	not available	37800.0	2.08	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-CUBEBENE	0	Leaf	25.0	305.0	1.72	Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALPHA-HUMULENE	2	Essential Oil	not available	30000.0	-0.21	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE	2	Flower	775.0	850.0	1.88	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE	2	Fruit	250.0	850.0	-0.17	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-HUMULENE	2	Leaf	290.0	1740.0	2.49	Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
ALPHA-HUMULENE-EPOXIDE	1	Essential Oil	not available	26000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ALPHA-METHYL-FURFURYL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Wealth of India.
ALPHA-METHYL-FURFURYL	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	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
Immunosuppressant	4	Duke, 1992 *
Inflammatory	1	Duke, 1992 *
iNOS-Inhibitor	2	Duke, 1992 *
Inotropic	3	Duke, 1992 *
Insecticide	9	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge	11	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Insectifuge?	1	Martindale's 28th
Insectiphile	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulin-Sparing	2	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Insulinogenic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Interferon-Synergist	1	Duke, 1992 *
Interferonogenic	2	Pizzorno, J.E. and Murray, M.T. 1985. A Textbook of Natural Medicine. John Bastyr College Publications, Seattle, Washington (Looseleaf).
Interleukin-6-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Iodothyronine-Deiodinase-Inhibitor	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Irritant	12	Duke, 1992 *
JNK-Inhibitor	1	Duke, 1992 *
Juvabional	3	Jacobson, M., Glossary of Plant-Derived Insect Deterrents, CRC Press, Inc., Boca Raton, FL, 213 p, 1990.
Larvicide	4	Leung, A.Y., Encyclopedia of Common Natural Ingredients Used in Food, Drugs, and Cosmetics, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1980.
Larvistat	2	Lydon, J. & Duke, S., The potential of pesticides from plants, pp. 1-41 in Craker, L. & Simon, J., eds, Herbs, Spices & Medicinal Plants: Recent Advances in Botany, Horticulture, & Pharmacology, v. 4, Oryx Press, Phoenix, 1989, 267pp.
Laxative	5	Zebovitz, T. C. Ed. 1989. Part VII. Flavor and Fragrance Substances, in Keith L. H. and Walters, D.B., eds. Compendium of Safety Data Sheets for Research and Industrial Chemicals. VCH Publishers, New York. 3560-4253.