pine needle oil
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pine needle oil
(′pīn ′nēd·əl ′oil)
(materials) An essential oil derived from various pines; colorless to yellowish oil with balsamic aroma; soluble in alcohol; used in perfumes and medicines. Also known as Douglas fir oil; fir wood oil.
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Source: Dwarf pine Pinus mugo Turra (syn. P. montana Mill.) and P. mugo var. pumilio (Haenke) Zenari (syn. P. pumilio Haenke); Scotch pine Pinus sylvestris L. (Family Pinaceae).
Common/vernacular names: Swiss mountain pine oil (P. mugo).
Dwarf pine is a prostrate shrub or pyramidal tree (up to ca: 12 m high) with leaves in two-leaved fascicles (clusters), stiff and twisted; native to mountains of central and southern Europe.
Scotch pine is a tree also with stiff and twisted leaves in two-leaved fascicles; bark deeply fissured; up to about 40 m high; native to Eurasia and cultivated in eastern United States.
Parts used are the leaves (needles) and twigs from which the essential oils are obtained by steam distillation.
Dwarf pine needle oil (dwarf pine oil, pine needle oil N.F., Pinus pumilio oil, or pumilio pine oil) is produced mainly in Austria (Tirol) and Italy.
Scotch pine needle oil (Scotch pine oil or Pinus sylvestris oil) is mostly produced in Austria (Tirol), Russia, and Scandinavia.
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