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Lagoecia
Sign in to saveLagoecia, wild cumin, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae. It has only one species, Lagoecia cuminoides, native to the Mediterranean region and as far east as Iran. Its essential oil contains 72.83–94.76% thymol, quite a bit more than thyme (Thymus vulgaris), which has a thymol content of approximately 47.59%.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 25
- With media
- 12
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Collections
- RSA, VT, LD, BRIT
- Recorded in
- Turkey, France, Spain, Greece, Italy, Syrian Arab Republic
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Lagoecia, wild cumin, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Apiaceae. It has only one species, Lagoecia cuminoides, native to the Mediterranean region and as far east as Iran. Its essential oil contains 72.83–94.76% thymol, quite a bit more than thyme (Thymus vulgaris), which has a thymol content of approximately 47.59%.
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lagoecia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.