Showing Food Lemon verbena
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| Name | Lemon verbena | ||||||||||
| Scientific Name | Aloysia triphylla | ||||||||||
| Description | Aloysia citrodora is a species of flowering plant in the verbena family Verbenaceae, native to northwestern Argentina and southern Bolivia. Common names include lemon verbena and lemon beebrush. It was brought to Europe by the Spanish and the Portuguese in the 17th century. | ||||||||||
| Primary ID | FOOD00010 | ||||||||||
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| Group | Herbs and Spices | ||||||||||
| Sub-Group | Herbs | ||||||||||
| Taxonomy | |||||||||||
| Superkingdom | Eukaryota | ||||||||||
| Kingdom | Viridiplantae | ||||||||||
| Phylum | Streptophyta | ||||||||||
| Class | Magnoliopsida | ||||||||||
| Order | Lamiales | ||||||||||
| Family | Verbenaceae | ||||||||||
| Genus | Aloysia | ||||||||||
| Species | triphylla | ||||||||||
| Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||
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| ITIS ID | 32135 | ||||||||||
| Wikipedia ID | Aloysia citrodora | ||||||||||
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| Compounds |
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| Macronutrients |
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| Content Reference | — Rothwell JA, Pérez-Jiménez J, Neveu V, Medina-Ramon A, M'Hiri N, Garcia Lobato P, Manach C, Knox K, Eisner R, Wishart D, Scalbert A. (2013) Phenol-Explorer 3.0: a major update of the Phenol-Explorer database to incorporate data on the effects of food processing on polyphenol content. Database, 10.1093/database/bat070. — Shinbo, Y., et al. 'KNApSAcK: a comprehensive species-metabolite relationship database.' Plant Metabolomics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. 165-181. | ||||||||||