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

Common Names
Clove; Clovetree
How this plant is used
Food
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List of plant chemicals.
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Chemical Name Activity Count Plant Part Low Parts Per Million High Parts Per Million Standard Deviation Reference
BENZOIC-ACID-ETHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit *
BENZOIC-ACID-METHYL-ESTER 0 Fruit *
BENZOIC-ACID-PROPYL-ESTER 0 Fruit *
BENZYL-ACETATE 9 Plant *
BENZYL-ALCOHOL 9 Plant *
BENZYL-TIGLATE 0 Plant *
BETA-BOURBONENE 0 Leaf Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
BETA-CAROTENE 53 Bark 2.0 3.0 -0.65 CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs and/or CRC Handbook of Proximate Analyses
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Essential Oil 495000.0 2.81 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Flower *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Fruit 2230.0 69365.0 2.00 *
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE 0 Leaf 2295.0 14520.0 6.77 Charalambous, G. (Ed.). 1994. Spices, Herbs and Edible Fungi. Elsevier Science B. V. Amsterdam. 764 pp.
BETA-CARYOPHYLLENE-OXIDE 0 Essential Oil 45000.0 *
BETA-MUUROLENE 0 Fruit *
BETA-PINENE 13 Fruit *
BETA-PINENE 13 Plant *
BETA-SELINENE 3 Fruit *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Essential Oil 1000.0 -1.00 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Fruit 2420.0 2.39 *
BETA-SITOSTEROL 47 Plant *
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List of plant activities.
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Activity Chemical Count Reference
Immunosuppressant 4 *
Inflammatory 1 *
iNOS-Inhibitor 2 *
Inotropic 3 *
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 *
Interferon-Synergist 1 *
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 *
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 *
JNK-Inhibitor 1 *
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.