The results reported by Pino and others (2001), from a species with red skin collected in Cuba, and by Vernin and others (1998) with both yellow and red-skinned varieties from La Reunion Island, revealed both qualitative and quantitative differences from the oils of our cultivars. In spite of these differences, however, there was 1 coincidence: β-caryophyllene was the major characterized component in the oil of all analyzed samples. The observed variation can be explained by the different isolation methods employed, the site of collection and cultivars.