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Taxon:  Laurus nobilis L.



Summary
Genus:
Laurus
Family:
Lauraceae
Nomen number:
21664
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:369. 1753
Verified:
10/09/2009 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
2 (2  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System.  (Map it)
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
No images
Reference(s)
  1. Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin). 2009 Note:
    • based on Alden, B. & S. Ryman. 2005-: SKUD (Swedish Utility and Cultivated Plants Database)
    • http://www.skud.info
  2. Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource). http://rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk/BSBI/taxonsearch.php
  3. Boutelje, J. B. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. 1980
  4. Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988
  5. Der Marderosian, A. & L. Liberti. Natural product medicine: a scientific guide to foods, drugs, cosmetics. 1988
  6. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  7. Facciola, S. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants. 1990 Note: Kampong Publications
  8. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Laurus+nobilis&quantity=1
  9. Greuter, W. et al., eds. Med-Checklist. 1984-
  10. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
  11. Iwatsuki, K. et al. Flora of Japan. 1993-
  12. Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. Atlas florae europaeae. 1972-
  13. Kartesz, J. T. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. 1994
  14. Krüssmann, G. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). 1984
  15. Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. Hortus third. 1976
  16. Mabberley, D. J. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2. 1997
  17. Magness, J. R. et al. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1. 1971
  18. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  19. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  20. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  21. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994
  22. Reichel, S. 1998. pers. comm. Note: re. German common names
  23. Terrell, E. E. et al. Agric. Handb. no. 505. 1986
  24. Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980
  25. Walters, S. M. et al., eds. European garden flora. 1986-
  26. Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- http://www.efloras.org/browse.aspx?flora_id=2
Common names
English
bay –
bay laurel –
bay-leaf laurel –
Grecian laurel –
laurel –
sweet bay –
French
laurier –
German
Lorbeerbaum –
Lorbeerstrauch –
Japanese Rōmaji
gekkeiju –
Portuguese
loureiro –
louro –
Portuguese (Brazil)
louro-comum –
louro-de-apolônio –
louro-europeu –
Swedish
lager –
Transcribed Chinese
yue gui –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaAlgeria n.
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaLibya n.
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaMorocco n.
1NativeAfricaNorthern AfricaTunisia  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern Asia******  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaCyprus  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaLebanon  
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaSyria w.
1NativeAsia-TemperateWestern AsiaTurkey w.
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeAlbania w.
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeBosnia and Herzegovina w.
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeCroatia  
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeGreece incl. Crete
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeItaly incl. Sardinia, Sicily
1NativeEuropeSoutheastern EuropeSlovenia  
1NativeEuropeSouthwestern EuropeFrance incl. Corsica
2Cultivated    also cult.
4Naturalized    natzd. elsewhere
Native
Africa
  • NORTHERN AFRICA: Algeria (n.), Libya (n.), Morocco (n.), Tunisia
Asia-Temperate
  • WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus, ******, Lebanon, Syria (w.), Turkey (w.)
Europe
  • SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Albania (w.), Bosnia and Herzegovina (w.), Greece (incl. Crete), Croatia, Italy (incl. Sardinia, Sicily), Slovenia
  • SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE: France (incl. Corsica)
Cultivated (also cult.)
Naturalized (natzd. elsewhere)
Economic Uses
Environmental
Food additives
flavoring (spice, safe fide Der Marderosian) –
Materials
essential oils (fide F ChinaEng) –
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –


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