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

The essential oil yield of Satureja hortensis (cultured and wild growing) and S. spicigera (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 (49.71%) and S. spicigera (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 (26.14%, 13.28%, 27.90%) and p-cymene (5.06%, 14.94%, 15.76%). The difference among cultured and wild growing S. hortensis essential oil compositions was interesting