Is Daisy natural or synthetic?

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Daisy

AccordFLOWERSfloral · fresh · green

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Specimen

Bellis perennis

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Definition

Daisy is Bellis perennis, a European species of the family Asteraceae that is often considered the archetypal species of the name daisy.

FLORAL GREEN SWEET FRESH CREAMY

common daisy, lawn daisy, English daisy

Type: Accord
Olfactive family: Florals
Subfamily: Green florals
Cluster: Green-fresh florals
Source: flowers

Instruments

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The Full Story

Bellis perennis is a perennial herbaceous plant growing to 20 centimetres (8 inches) in height. It has short creeping rhizomes and rosettes of small rounded or spoon-shaped leaves. The flower heads are composite, about 2 to 3 cm in diameter. The plant blooms from March to September.

The species habitually colonises lawns and is difficult to eradicate by mowing, hence the term 'lawn daisy'. Bellis may come from bellus, Latin for "pretty", and perennis is Latin for "everlasting".

Bellis perennis may be used as a potherb. The young leaves can be eaten raw in salads or cooked, but the leaves become increasingly astringent with age. Flower buds and petals can be eaten raw in sandwiches, soups and salads. It is also used as a tea and as a vitamin supplement. Bellis perennis has astringent properties and has been used in herbal medicine. Daisies have traditionally been used for making daisy chains in children's games. The daisy is the national flower of the Netherlands.

In the headspace of fresh flowers of Bellis perennis in pink, yellow and white, camphor was the largest single compound measured.

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Did You Know?

The daisy exhibits heliotropism, in which the flowers follow the position of the sun in the sky. Its name is considered a corruption of "day's eye", because the whole head closes at night and opens in the morning.

Extraction & Chemistry

Extraction method

In a study of ten flower taxa, three of them Bellis perennis (pink, yellow and white), the volatile compounds of the fresh flowers were collected by dynamic headspace collection and analysed by auto thermal desorber-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.

Botanical: Bellis perennis
Synonyms: common daisy, lawn daisy, English daisy

IFRA status

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