Description

Origanum vulgare is a culinary herb, used for the flavor of its leaves. It has an aromatic, warm, and slightly bitter taste. Among the chemical compounds contributing to the flavour are carvacrol, thymol, limonene, pinene, ocimene, and caryophyllene.

Scientific classitication

Family: Lamiaceae

Genus: Origanum

Common Name

Niu Zhi

Reference

Bornowski, N., Hamilton, J. P., Liao, P., Wood, J. C., Dudareva, N., & Buell, C. R. (2020). Genome sequencing of four culinary herbs reveals terpenoid genes underlying chemodiversity in the Nepetoideae. DNA research : an international journal for rapid publication of reports on genes and genomes, 27(3), dsaa016.