Abstract During the last decades, an ongoing spread of broad-leaved evergreen laurophyllous species has been reported for forests Southern Europe. Several factors were suggested as main drivers phenomenon, namely global warming, land-use change, evolutionary history, and increase in atmospheric CO 2 . Among laurophylls, Laurus nobilis L. is considered one most prominent from morphological, evol...

Laurus nobilis is native to the southern Mediterranean region. It a small tree from Lauraceae family. The leaves of L. are most exploited part plant due not only high produced quantity but large benefits and extensive use in different fields including culinary, cosmetic, therapeutic, pharmacologic. various beneficial health properties attributed bay related presence bioactive compounds. Chemica...

Has been investigated impact of essential oils Ocimum basilicum L., Eugenia caryophyllata Thumb., Hyssopus officinalis Coriandrum sativum Nepeta cataria transcaucasica, Lavandula angustifolia Moench., Laurus nobilis Mentha longifólia 4 sorts piperita L, Abies alba Mill., Artemisia taurica Willd., Rosa gallica Pinus silvestris Thymus vulgaris Satureja montana hortensis L. on psycho-emotional sta...

The in vitro and in vivo antioxidant activities of different extracts of laurel leaves were studied. Free radical scavenging capacity (RSC) was evaluated measuring the scavenging activity on the DPPH, NO, O(2)(.-) and OH radicals. The effects on lipid peroxidation (LP) were also evaluated. Experimental results indicate that ethyl acetate extract of leaves has exhibited the largest RSC capacity ...

Yield and composition of the essential oil obtained by hydrodistillation from leaves of laurel coming from ten different sites in Tunisia were determined. From each locality, leaves were harvested during four different vegetative stages (October, production of seeds; January, dormancy; April, flowering; July, vegetative activity) to look for some correlation between composition and vegetative s...