(1) Background: The leaves of some plants are reported for their culinary uses, while in edible flowers, they are one of the discarded products in the supply chain. We investigated the volatile profile (VP) and the essential oil (EO) compositions of...
Edible flowers are consumed for their appearance, colours, nutritional and healthy properties, but the use is limited by the actual number of the species. Seven edible flowers of the Lamiaceae family (Ocimeae and Mentheae tribes) were investigated: M...
The Nepetoideae and the Lamioideae are the largest subfamilies of the family Lamiaceae comprising more than half of the family’s species including mostly shrubs or herbs, many of which are applied as culinary and medicinal herbs. The results of...
The Nepetoideae are a subfamily of the Lamiaceae with 124 genera in three tribes: Elsholtzieae, Mentheae and Ocimeae. Their seeds have variable shapes, described in the literature by using adjectives derived from geometry, such as ellipsoid or ellipt...