Cinnamomum

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Cinnamomum

Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae

Lauraceae

The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains about 55 genera and over 2000 species world-wide, mostly from warm or tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and Brazil....
. The species of Cinnamomum have aromatic oils in their leaves

Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
and bark. The genus contains over 300 species, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of North America

North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
, Central America

Central America

Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
, South America

South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
, Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
, Oceania

Oceania ecozone

Oceania is the smallest of the world's terrestrial ecozones, and unique in not including any continental land mass. The ecozone includes the Pacific Ocean islands of Micronesia, the Fiji, and most of Polynesia ....
and Australasia

Australasia ecozone

The Australasian zone is an ecozone that is coincident, but not synonymous , with the geography region of Australasia. The ecozone includes Australia, the island of New Guinea , and the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago, including the island of Sulawesi, the Moluccan islands and islands of Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, and Timo...
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Notable Cinnamomum species include Cinnamon

Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a small evergreen tree 10?15 metres tall, belonging to the family Lauraceae, and is native to Sri Lanka.The leaf are ovate-oblong in shape, 7?18 cm long....
(Cinnamomum verum or C. zeylanicum, also known as "true cinnamon" or Ceylon Cinnamon), Cassia

Cassia

Cassia is an evergreen tree native to southern China, Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam. Like its close relative, cinnamon , it is used primarily for its aromatic bark, which is used as a spice, often under the culinary name of "cinnamon"....
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Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae
Lauraceae

The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. The family contains about 55 genera and over 2000 species world-wide, mostly from warm or tropical regions, especially Southeast Asia and Brazil....
. The species of Cinnamomum have aromatic oils in their leaves
Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
and bark. The genus contains over 300 species, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of North America
North America

North America is the northern continent of the Americas, situated in the Earth's northern hemisphere and almost totally in the western hemisphere....
, Central America
Central America

Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
, South America
South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
, Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
, Oceania
Oceania ecozone

Oceania is the smallest of the world's terrestrial ecozones, and unique in not including any continental land mass. The ecozone includes the Pacific Ocean islands of Micronesia, the Fiji, and most of Polynesia ....
and Australasia
Australasia ecozone

The Australasian zone is an ecozone that is coincident, but not synonymous , with the geography region of Australasia. The ecozone includes Australia, the island of New Guinea , and the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago, including the island of Sulawesi, the Moluccan islands and islands of Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, and Timo...
.

Notable Cinnamomum species include Cinnamon
Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a small evergreen tree 10?15 metres tall, belonging to the family Lauraceae, and is native to Sri Lanka.The leaf are ovate-oblong in shape, 7?18 cm long....
(Cinnamomum verum or C. zeylanicum, also known as "true cinnamon" or Ceylon Cinnamon), Cassia
Cassia

Cassia is an evergreen tree native to southern China, Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam. Like its close relative, cinnamon , it is used primarily for its aromatic bark, which is used as a spice, often under the culinary name of "cinnamon"....
(C. aromaticum or C. cassia), Camphor Laurel
Camphor Laurel

Cinnamomum camphora is a large evergreen tree that grows up to 20-30 metres tall. The leaves have a glossy, waxy appearance and smell of camphor when crushed....
(C. camphora), Saigon Cinnamon
Saigon Cinnamon

Saigon Cinnamon is an evergreen tree in the genus Cinnamomum, indigenous to mainland Southeast Asia. Despite its name, it is more closely related to Cassia than to Cinnamon , though in the same genus as both....
(C. loureiroi, also known as Vietnamese cinnamon, Vietnamese cassia, or Saigon cassia), Malabathrum
Malabathrum

Malabathrum, also known as Malobathrum or Malabar leaf, is the name used in classical and medieval texts for the leaf of the plant Cinnamomum tamala ....
(C. tamala, also known as C. tejpata; tejpat or tej pat in Hindi
Hindi

Standard Hindi, also known as High Hindi, Nagari Hindi or Literary Hindi is a Standard language register of Hindi. It is one of the 22 official languages of India, and is used, along with English language, for administration of the central government....
; or, inaccurately, "Indian bay leaf
Bay leaf

Bay leaf , Greek Daphni, Romanian Dafin, Portuguese Louro; is the aromatic leaf of several species of the Laurel family . Fresh or dried bay leaves are used in cooking for their distinctive flavor and fragrance....
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Selected species

Cinnamomum acuminatifolium
Cinnamomum acuminatissimum
Cinnamomum acutatum
Cinnamomum africanum
Cinnamomum aggregatum
Cinnamomum alainii
Cinnamomum alatum
Cinnamomum albiflorum
Cinnamomum alcinii
Cinnamomum alexei
Cinnamomum alibertii
Cinnamomum alternifolium
Cinnamomum altissimum
Cinnamomum ammannii
Cinnamomum amoenum
Cinnamomum amplexicaule
Cinnamomum amplifolium
Cinnamomum anacardium
Cinnamomum andersonii
Cinnamomum angustifolium
Cinnamomum angustitepalum
Cinnamomum antillarum
Cinnamomum appelianum
Cinnamomum arbusculum
Cinnamomum archboldianum
Cinnamomum areolatocostae
Cinnamomum areolatum
Cinnamomum areolatum
Cinnamomum arfakense
Cinnamomum argenteum
Cinnamomum aromaticum - Cassia
Cinnamomum arsenei
Cinnamomum asa-grayi
Cinnamomum assamicum
Cinnamomum aubletii
Cinnamomum aureo-fulvum
Cinnamomum australe
Cinnamomum austro-sinense
Cinnamomum austro-yunnanense
Cinnamomum bahianum
Cinnamomum bahiense
Cinnamomum baileyanum
Cinnamomum baillonii
Cinnamomum balansae
Cinnamomum bamoense
Cinnamomum barbato-axillatum
Cinnamomum barbeyanum
Cinnamomum barlowii
Cinnamomum bartheifolium
Cinnamomum barthii
Cinnamomum bazania
Cinnamomum beccarii
Cinnamomum bejolghota
Cinnamomum bengalense
Cinnamomum biafranum
Cinnamomum bintulense
Cinnamomum birmanicum
Cinnamomum blumei
Cinnamomum bodinieri
Cinnamomum bonii
Cinnamomum bonplandii
Cinnamomum borneense
Cinnamomum bourgeauvianum
Cinnamomum boutonii
Cinnamomum brachythyrsum
Cinnamomum bractefoliaceum
Cinnamomum burmannii
Cinnamomum burmannii

Cinnamomum burmannii, also known as Indonesian Cinnamon, Padang Cassia, or Korintje, it is one of several plants in the genus Cinnamomum whose bark is sold as the spice cinnamon....
Cinnamomum camphora - Camphor Laurel
Cinnamomum cassia - (syn. C. aromaticum)
Cinnamomum caudiferum
Cinnamomum chartophyllum
Cinnamomum citriodorum
Cinnamomum citriodorum

Cinnamomum citriodorum, commonly known as Malabar cinnamon, is an evergreen tree in the genus Cinnamomum....
- Malabar cinnamon
Cinnamomum contractum
Cinnamomum filipes
Cinnamomum glanduliferum
Cinnamomum glaucescens
Cinnamomum ilicioides
Cinnamomum impressinervium
Cinnamomum iners
Cinnamomum japonicum - (syn. C. pedunculatum) - Japanese cinnamon
Cinnamomum javanicum
Cinnamomum jensenianum
Cinnamomum kanehirae - (stout camphor tree) niu zhang in Chinese ; it's endemic
Endemic

Endemic, in a broad sense, can mean "belonging" or "native to", "characteristic of", or "prevalent in" a particular geography, race, field, area, or Natural environment; native to an area or scope....
to Taiwan
Taiwan

Taiwan is an island in East Asia. "Taiwan" is also commonly used to refer to the country governed by the Republic of China and to the ROC itself, which governs the island of Taiwan, Orchid Island and Green Island, Taiwan in the Pacific Ocean off the Taiwan coast, the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and the Matsu Islands...
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Cinnamomum kotoense
Cinnamomum kwangtungense
Cinnamomum liangii
Cinnamomum longepaniculatum
Cinnamomum longipetiolatum
Cinnamomum loureiroi
Saigon Cinnamon

Saigon Cinnamon is an evergreen tree in the genus Cinnamomum, indigenous to mainland Southeast Asia. Despite its name, it is more closely related to Cassia than to Cinnamon , though in the same genus as both....
- Saigon Cinnamon
Cinnamomum mairei
Cinnamomum micranthum
Cinnamomum migao
Cinnamomum mollifolium
Cinnamomum oliveri
Cinnamomum osmophloeum
Cinnamomum osmophloeum

Cinnamomum osmophloeum, commonly known as pseudocinnamomum or indigenous cinnamon, is an evergreen tree in the genus Cinnamomum....
- Pseudocinnamomum
Cinnamomum parthenoxylon
Cinnamomum pauciflorum
Cinnamomum philippinense
Cinnamomum pingbienense
Cinnamomum pittosporoides
Cinnamomum platyphyllum
Cinnamomum porphyrium
Cinnamomum porrectum
Cinnamomum reticulatum
Cinnamomum rigidissimum
Cinnamomum saxatile
Cinnamomum septentrionale
Cinnamomum subavenium
Cinnamomum tamala
Malabathrum

Malabathrum, also known as Malobathrum or Malabar leaf, is the name used in classical and medieval texts for the leaf of the plant Cinnamomum tamala ....
- Malabathrum or Tejpat
Cinnamomum tenuipilum
Cinnamomum tonkinense
Cinnamomum triplinerve
Cinnamomum tsangii
Cinnamomum tsoi
Cinnamomum validinerve
Cinnamomum verum
Cinnamon

Cinnamon is a small evergreen tree 10?15 metres tall, belonging to the family Lauraceae, and is native to Sri Lanka.The leaf are ovate-oblong in shape, 7?18 cm long....
- Cinnamon, Ceylon Cinnamon, or True Cinnamon
Cinnamomum virens - Red-barked sassafras, eastern Australia
Cinnamomum wilsonii