Table 2 Market ginseng products or materials purchased online. BRM: Botanical Reference Material.

From: Application of a modified tetra-primer ARMS–PCR assay for rapid Panax species identity authentication in ginseng products

Item

Place of origin

Sample attribute

Claimed Species

HPTLC results on species identity

Red Ginseng-1

Jilin, China

Slice

P. ginseng

P. ginseng

Red Ginseng-2

Jilin, China

Entire root

P. ginseng

P. ginseng

Red Ginseng-3

Jilin, China

Slice

P. ginseng

P. ginseng

Red Ginseng-4

Jilin, China

Slice

P. ginseng

P. ginseng

Red Ginseng-5

Jilin, China

Slice

P. ginseng

P. ginseng

Red Ginseng-6

Jilin, China

Entire root

P. ginseng

P. ginseng

American Ginseng-1

Jilin, China

Slice

P. quinquefolius

P. quinquefolius

American Ginseng-2

Jilin, China

Slice

P. quinquefolius

P. quinquefolius

American Ginseng-3

Jilin, China

Slice

P. quinquefolius

P. quinquefolius

American Ginseng-4

Jilin, China

Slice

P. quinquefolius

P. quinquefolius

American Ginseng-5

Jilin, China

Slice

P. quinquefolius

P. quinquefolius

American Ginseng-6

Jilin, China

Slice

P. quinquefolius

P. quinquefolius

Tienchi-1

Yunnan, China

Dry root

P. notoginseng

P. notoginseng

Tienchi-2

Yunnan, China

Dry root

P. notoginseng

P. notoginseng

Tienchi-3

Yunnan, China

Dry root

P. notoginseng

P. notoginseng

Japanese Ginseng-1

Anhui, China

Dry root

P. japonicus

Not evaluated

Japanese Ginseng-2

Anhui, China

Dry root

P. japonicus

Not evaluated

Japanese Ginseng-3*

Anhui, China

Dry root

P. japonicus

Not evaluated

Acanthopanax Root-1

Heilongjiang, China

Slice

E. senticosus

Not evaluated

Acanthopanax Root-2

Heilongjiang, China

Slice

E. senticosus

Not evaluated

Acanthopanax Root-3

Heilongjiang, China

Slice

E. senticosus

Not evaluated

  1. *Not used in validation due to HPTLC profile difference between lot No. 3 and the other two lots. See Supplementary Fig. 5 for details.