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Latin (Botanical) name: Coriandrum sativum L.

Family: Umbelliferae, Apiaceae.

Common name: Coriander, Coriandre cultivée, Kozbarah.

Method of extraction: Steam distilled from dried fruits (seeds), green leaves and green leaves with non-matured seeds (flowering tops).

Origin: Egypt.

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

Specific gravity: 0.849 - 0.875 at 25°C.

Refractive index: 1.454 – 1.472 at 20°C.

Perfumery note: Top, Middle.

Plant description:

UMBELLIFERAE A. Juss.: Not spiny. Umbel-rays not woolly. Leafy herbs, root not globose. Bracteoles present (= the narrow leaves supporting the small secondary umbels). Fruit beakless. Fruit spineless. Fruit cylindrical, ovoid or globose. Leaves thin. Bracts absent. Petals radiating. CORIANDRUM L. Fruit glabrous, globose, hollow. Brats absent, or few deciduous, bracteoles present. CORIANDRUM SATIVUM L.: Glabrous plant of strong smell. Lower leaves broadly, upper ones finely dissected. Flowers white, outer ones with raylike radiating petals. Annual. Completely naturalized.

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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