Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Essential Oil From Different Vegetative Organs and Fruits of Foeniculum vulgare Mill. var. vulgare Growing in Turkey

Abstract

The essential oils obtained by hydrodistillation of fruit, stem, leaf stalk and leaf of bitter fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Miller, Apiaceae) were analyzed by GC-MS. Essential oil content was obtained 7.25 % in fruit, 0.375 % in stem, 0.857 % in leaf stalk and 0.75 % in leaf. trans- Anethole was the major component in the fruit (75.05 %), stem (64.09 %) and leaf stalk (75.64%) and the leaf oil which contained α-phellandrene (38.23%) and α-pinene (31.79%) as the main components. The chemical composition of the essential oils investigated was found both quantitatively and qualitatively different.