Lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus) is a Poaceae family perennial grass that yields essential oil. The prefix ‘lemon’ refers to the odour, which mostly owing presence of citral, cyclic monoterpene. It rapidly growing and native South India Sri Lanka now widely cultivated throughout tropical America Asia. oil used medicinally derived from freshly cut slightly dried leave. has recently gained global...

Cymbopogon flexuosus (Steud.) cv. Suvarna produces an essential oil with unique lemon like aroma which is broadly used in flavors, fragrance, perfumery and pharmaceuticals. Here we report changes in essential oil content and compositions during C. flexuosus cv. Suvarna leaf development, leaf positions and leaf age. Essential oils were isolated by hydro-distillation of leaves harvested at six di...

Local medicinal plants from Madina, Saudi Arabia, are used to cure various diseases. However, some can cause adverse health effects. Five different medicinal plants were collected in the city of Madina: mahareeb (Cymbopogon), sheeh (Artemisia), harjal (Cynanchum argel delile), nabipoot (Equisetum), and kafmariam (Vitex agnus-castus). In total, four toxic elements including Al, Pb, As, and Cd we...

Citronella is an aromatic grass of the family Poaceae which can be classified into two categories Ceylon (Cymbopogon nardus) and Java winterianus). The oil was extracted from five selected (HP T1, HP T2 T3) (MP T1 MP T2) accessions using steam distillation hydrodistillation methods. quantity by with Xylene higher (2.45-2.67 mL/100 g) than (1.57-1.64 g). T1-5.52 %, T2- 1.40 T3- 1.05 %) T1- 1.25%...