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Latin (Botanical) name: Matricaria recutita L., Matricaria chamomilla L.

Family: Compositae, Asteraceae.

Common name: Chamomile blue, chamomile, chamomille, camomile, camomille, matricaria, matricaire, chamomilla, baboonig, baboonag.

Method of extraction: Steam distilled from dried flowers, crashed flowers or powdered, green flowers and leaves (flowering tops), fruits (seeds).

Origin: Egypt.

Uses: Herbal (Traditional) medicine (dosage), Flavor, Fragrance and Aromatherapy (bath, massage, skin, hair, steam inhalation, vaporization, etc.).

Specific gravity: 0.8995 - 0.97 at 25ºC.

Refractive index: 1.480 - 1.5055 at 25ºC.

Perfumery note: Middle.

Plant description:

COMPOSITAE Giseke: All, or at least the central flowers tubular. Tubuliflorac. Heads all of the same kind. Leaves unarmed. The same spineless but not forming a tube. Pappus otherwise. With radiating ligulate margin-flowers or heads discoid. Stem wingless, or (in a few genera) absent. Leaves alternate. Pappus scarious or absent. Ray-flowers present. Achenes not involved in fleece. Ray-flowers white. Receptacle naked ; glabrous herbs with capillary leaves. Ray-flowers absent. Annuals. Yellow-flowered. Glabrous herbs. Achene with short or no wing ; leafy high up. MATRICARIA L. Glabrous annual herbs with scarious involucre and often capillary leaves. Heads more or less conical with naked receptacle, ray-florets white or absent. Achenes terete, inner face 3-5-ribbed, pappus crown-like or absent. With white ray-florets MATRICARIA RECUTITA L. (= MATRICARIA CHAMOMILLA L.): Fragrant herb with finely dissected capillary leaves. (Ann.).

Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.

Propagation: Fruits (seeds), annual plant cultivated in Upper Egypt.

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