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Cistus ladanifer L.
Cistus ladanifer, the gum rockrose, is a Mediterranean shrub whose leaves and stems exude labdanum.
The raw gum is taken from the plant, and the absolute is extracted from the gum with ethanol. No origin record is linked yet.
The record
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- Latin name
- Cistus ladanifer L.
documented
"scientificName": "Cistus ladanifer L."
GBIF-2 · GBIF Secretariat (2023) · read 2026-09-30
confidence A
- Common name
- gum rockrose
documented
commonly known as gum rockrose, is a Mediterranean shrub
CIS-1 · Gago C, Bakchiche B, Djekhioua T, da Graça Miguel M · read 2026-09-30
confidence A
- Family
- Cistaceae
documented
- Part used
- the leaves and stems, which exude the resin (labdanum)
documented
Raw gum labdanum is a resin extracted from the photosynthetic leaves and stems of
CIS-1 · Gago C, Bakchiche B, Djekhioua T, da Graça Miguel M · read 2026-09-30
confidence A
- Cultivars
- not on record
not on record
none named in a filed source
- Origins on record
- Materials
Sources
- GBIF-2 · GBIF Secretariat (2023). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-09-30. doi.org/10.15468/39omei · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0 (the dataset’s licence field); the JSON responses are filed, pretty-printed, with this attribution
- CIS-1 · Gago C, Bakchiche B, Djekhioua T, da Graça Miguel M. Cistus ladanifer L.: Essential Oils, Volatiles, By-Products, and Their Biological Properties. Molecules. 2025;30(22):4425. doi.org/10.3390/molecules30224425 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0
These records are published under CC BY 4.0.
this record as data: /data/botanical/cistus-ladanifer.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A
