Table 2.
Major components of fruits and leaves of Iranian conifers
| Plant name | Plant part |
Chemical components (average content) a |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alkaloids | Flavonoids | Saponin | Tannins | |||
| C. semipervirens var. horizontalis | leaves | – | 2+ | 4+ | 3+ | |
| C. semipervirens var. horizontalis | fruits | – | 1+ | 4+ | 4+ | |
| C. semipervirens var. semipervirens | leaves | – | 1+ | 1+ | 1+ | |
| C. semipervirens var. semipervirens | fruits | – | – | 1+ | 2+ | |
| C. semipervirens cv. Cereifeormis | leaves | – | 3+ | 1+ | 3+ | |
| C. semipervirens cv. Cereifeormis | fruits | – | 2+ | 1+ | 4+ | |
| J. communis subsp. hemisphaerica | leaves (male) | – | 3+ | 1+ | 4+ | |
| J. communis subsp. hemisphaerica | leaves (female) | – | 3+ | 1+ | 4+ | |
| J. communis subsp. hemisphaerica | fruits | – | 1+ | 4+ | 1+ | |
| J. excelsa subsp. excelsa | leaves | – | 1+ | 2+ | ||
| J. excelsa subsp. excelsa | fruits | – | 2+ | 1+ | 1+ | |
| J. excelsa subsp. polycarpos | leaves (male) | – | 3+ | 4+ | 4+ | |
| J. excelsa subsp. polycarpos | leaves (female) | – | 3+ | 1+ | 2+ | |
| J. excelsa subsp. polycarpos | fruits | – | 2+ | 1+ | 2+ | |
| J. oblonga | leaves (male) | – | 3+ | 1+ | 4+ | |
| J. oblonga | leaves (female) | – | 3+ | 1+ | 4+ | |
| J. oblonga | fruits | – | 3+ | 1+ | 2+ | |
| J. foetidissima | leaves (male) | – | 4+ | – | 3+ | |
| J. foetidissima | leaves (female) | – | 4+ | – | 2+ | |
| J. foetidissima | fruits | – | 4+ | – | 2+ | |
| J. sabina | leaves (male) | – | 3+ | – | 2+ | |
| J. sabina | leaves (female) | – | 3+ | – | 1+ | |
| J. sabina | fruits | – | – | – | – | |
| P. orientalis | leaves | – | 3+ | 1+ | 2+ | |
| P. orientalis | fruits | – | 2+ | – | 3+ | |
| T. baccata | leaves (male) | 2+ | 4+ | 4+ | 3+ | |
| T. baccata | leaves (female) | 3+ | 2+ | – | 3+ | |
| T. baccata | fruits | 1+ | – | – | 4+ | |
a: Average content was rated from - to 4+; +: slightly positive; ++: moderately positive; +++: strongly positive; ++++: very strongly positive; -: not detected.