Essential oil content and chemical profile of Cotinus coggygria Scop. from Eastern Anatolia Türkiye

Abstract

The essential oil of the herb of the medicinal plant known as “smoke tree” (Cotinus coggygria Scop.) from Eastern, Anatolia (Turkey) was analyzed by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC/MS). Twenty ingredients were identified for flowers representing 100% of the total oil while eleven ingredients were characterized in leaf essential oil comprising 99.96% of the oil extracted. As thymol (31.33%) and carvone (20.57%) were comprising main ingredients of the flower oil, the major ingredients of the leaf were determined as limonene and cis-ocimene by 48.53% and 23.57%, respectively. Identification of thymol form leaf sample as the predominant ingredient was first reported.