A Study on the Satureja Species That Can Be Used as Thyme (Turkish with English Abstract)

The essential oil yield of Satureja hortensis insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(cultured and wild growing); and S. spicigera insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(wild); were respectively found to be 2.89%, 2.71% and 21.15%, in dry matter. The essential oils were analyzed by GLC. Respectively 18, 14 and 14 components were identified, the main ones being thymol, carvacrol, g-terpinene and p-cymene. Thymol was found to be the major component in wild S. hortensis insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(49.71%); and S. spicigera insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(30.26%);, while in cultured S. hortensis it was 6.58%. The percentage of carvacrol was 30.56%, 8.31% and 8.04%. The other important constituents were g-terpinene insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(26.14%, 13.28%, 27.90%); and p-cymene insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(5.06%, 14.94%, 15.76%);. The difference among cultured and wild growing S. hortensis essential oil compositions was interesting.