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Species
Cinnamomum verum J. Presl
IUCN
NCBI
EOL Text
Western Ghats and Sri Lanka; in the Western Ghats- South and Central Sahyadris.
Chile Central
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Rights holder/Author | Pablo Gutierrez, IABIN |
Source | No source database. |
French Guiana: cannelle. Surinam: kaneel, kaneelboom. Surinam Sranan: kaneri.
"Trees, to 20 m high, bark 8-10 mm thick, brown, rough, cracks vertical; blaze creamy pink; bole buttressed; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, opposite or subopposite, estipulate; petiole 8-20 mm, stout, glabrous, slightly grooved above; lamina 9.5-14 x 3.5-5.5 cm, ovate, elliptic ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, base acute, apex acute to acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous, 3-ribbed from base, prominent, glabrous; lateral nerves 3-6 pairs, obscure, pinnate; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, in terminal and axillary, pedicel 7 mm long, pale yellow, 5 mm long, 6 mm across; perianth 8 mm, silky, tube campanulate, lobes 6, 3 mm long, oblong-lanceolate; stamens 9 perfect, those of first and second rows opposite the perianth lobes, introrse and eglandular, those of third row opposite the first row, lateral, bearing 2 large glands at the base; staminodes 3, of the forth row opposite the second row, cordate and stipitate; ovary half inferior, sessile. Fruit a berry, 1-2 cm, ellipsoid to oblong-ovoid, dark purple, surrounded by the enlarged perianth."
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Habit
Trees, slightly buttressed, up to 16 m tall.
Trunk & Bark
Bark smooth, light brown with strong cinnamon smell; blaze brown.
Branches and Branchlets
Branchlets slender, subterete, glabrous
Leaves
Leaves simple, opposite to subopposite, rarely alternate, spiral; petiole to 2 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina 8-16 x 3-5 cm, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-lanceolate apex acute to acuminate, base acute to attenuate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; trinerved (rarely 5-nerved), basal, laterals not reaching the leaf apex, strongly cinnamon smell; tertiary nerves horizontally percurrent; higher order nerves minutely reticulate.
Inflorescence / Flower
Inflorescence axillary panicles, 20 cm long, many flowered; flowers pale yellow green.
Fruit and Seed
Berry, ellipsoid, dark purple, 1.2 cm long; fruiting perianth cup ribbed with persistent lobes; seeds 1.
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Habit: Tree
"Evergreen and riparian forests, also cultivated"
"Understorey trees in evergreen forests, between 600 and 1200 m."
Flowering and fruiting: March-April