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Although native to the Middle East and Orient, the largest producers of rose essential oil today are Bulgaria, Turkey, and France.  A deciduous informally shaped shrub, with curved prickles, pinnate leaves, and relatively small pink to light red highly fragrant numerous-petalled flowers.  There are several species, however, demascena and centifolia are the most common essential […]

Native to the mountains of India, growing in the Himalayas, Nepal, India, and China, Spikenard is a tender flowering herb with pink bell-shaped flowers, clustered in umbels on top of a long green stem, with dark to light elongated or oval shaped leaves, and underground rhizomes and roots. The essential oil is steam distilled from […]

Native to Australia, flourishing in moist, low lying, swampy areas around Northern New South wales, and Southern Queensland, Tea Tree is a shrub or tree, with green to dark-green coloured ovate or lanceolite shaped leaves, and white to yellow, or greenish to pink or red flowers bundled tightly on central stemens.  The bark is often […]

Native to India, and cultivated throughout the tropical regions of the world, vetvert is a perennial grass, with tall stems and long, thin, rigid leaves, which grow in clumps, with deep roots, and brownish-purple flowers.  The essential oil is steam distilled from the washed, dried, and chopped roots and rootlets, and is deep brown-red in […]