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No relation to : Chickweed Wintergreen [a plant with similar name] which belongs in the Primrose Family.

OIL of WINTERGREEN Oil of Wintergreen, Methyl Salicylate, is the methyl ester of Salicylic Acid. It is produced by all plants of the Genus Pyrola Wintergreens, as well as those of the Spireae Family (Meadowsweets), by some species of those of both the Genus Gaultheria and the Genus Betula. Its presence in plants may be to attract those insects which attack herbivorous insects. It is commercially extracted not from any Wintergreen plant, but from twigs of the Sweet Birch tree (Betula Lenta. It is used a fragrance in certain products not necessarily including perfumes, and in deep-heat liniments and in trace amounts as a flavour in some chewing gums, candies and mouthwashes as an alternative to spearmint and peppermint for it is also an anti-septic. Like most essential oils, it is poisonous in greater amounts. Methyl salicylate is a pheromone attractant to male orchid bees.

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