Anthocyanins in perilla plants and dried leaves

All red perilla (P. frutescens) and most P. citriodora strains accumulate five cyanidin derivatives that differ in the acyl group on the glucose moiety at the 3-O- and 5-O-positions of the anthocyanins. Only one strain of P. citriodora contain seven anthocyanins while another strain of P. citriodora contains only two anthocyanins.340