Centella Lab — Centella Asiatica Plant Reference | centellalab.com
Measured properties of Centella asiatica next to the named triterpenes isolated from it.
Centella asiatica is a herbaceous perennial plant in the flowering plant family Apiaceae. Its hermaphrodite flowers are minute, less than 3 mm in size, with five to six corolla lobes per flower, five stamens and two styles.
Grown as a crop, the plant matures in three months, and the whole plant including the roots is harvested manually. This duration is a cultivation figure, not a wild-growth estimate.
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Centella asiatica individuals are diploid, tetraploid or hexaploid, with chromosome counts of 2n = 18, 36 or 54. A chromosome-level genome of Centella asiatica was published in 2021.
Approximately 124 chemical compounds have been isolated from the plant. The triterpene compounds include asiaticoside and madecassoside, also named brahmoside; other constituents are centellose and centelloside.
These four named constituents are the ones that recur on raw-material specifications and, in Latinised form, on finished-product labels — see the label-reading page for the INCI spellings.
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