Lemon Myrtle Essential Oil

Steam distilled from leaves, Lemon Myrtle has a refreshing and very lemon-like odour. It is balancing and uplifting.

Lemon Myrtle | Latin Name: Backhousia Citriodora | Family: Myrtaceae | Extraction: Distillation | Plant Part: Leaves

Lemon Myrtle is an intensive, refreshing and very, very lemon-like; the odour has been described, without undue exaggeration, as “more lemon than lemon”. Taste is similar, very intensive, pleasant and warm. A pale yellow mobile liquid.

It is a rainforest tree to about 8m, having dark green lemon-scented leaves to 100 mm long. It flowers prolifically with large bunches of small white flowers on the ends of the branches. It is a common garden plant in Brisbane, and about a million have been planted commercially for their lemon oil content