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See text Image File history File links Starr_010419_0038_cinnamomum_camphora. ... Binomial name Cinnamomum camphora (L.) Sieb. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepaticophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) â€ Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families Atherospermataceae Calycanthaceae Gomortegaceae Hernandiaceae Lauraceae Monimiaceae Siparunaceae The Laurales are an order of flowering plants. ... Genera Many; see text The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. ... Carolus Linnaeus ~Carl Linnaeus~, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnÃ© ( listen?), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 â€“ January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ...

Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae. The species of Cinnamomum have aromatic oils in their leaves and bark. The genus contains over 300 species, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of North America, Central America, South America, Asia, Oceania and Australasia. Notable species are Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum, also known as C. verum), Cassia (C. aromaticum, also known as C. cassia), Camphor laurel (C. camphora), and Malabathrum (C. tamala, also known as C. tejpata; tejpat or tej pat in Hindi; or, inaccurately, Indian bay leaf). Genera Many; see text The Lauraceae or Laurel family comprises a group of flowering plants included in the order Laurales. ... In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west... Central America is the region of North America located between the southern border of Mexico and the northwest border of Colombia, in South America. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... World map showing location of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of Eurasia, defined by subtracting Europe from Eurasia. ... Oceania is the smallest of the worlds terrestrial ecozones, and unique in not including any continental land mass. ... The Australasian ecozone includes Australia, the island of New Guinea (including Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province of Papua), and the eastern part of the Indonesian archipelago, including the island of Sulawesi, the Moluccan islands (the Indonesian provinces of Maluku and North Maluku) and islands of Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba... color = lightgreen| name = Cinnamon}} Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum, synonym ) is a small evergreen tree 10-15 m tall, belonging to the family Lauraceae, native to Sri Lanka. ... Binomial name Cinnamomum aromaticum Nees Cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum, synonym ) is an evergreen tree native to southern China and Indochina, a close relative to the Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum) and Camphor laurel (Cinnamomum camphora) trees. ... Binomial name Cinnamomum camphora (L.) Sieb. ... Malabathrum, also known as Malabar leaf is the name used in classical and medieval texts for the leaf of the plant Cinnamomum tamala. ... Hindi (à¤¹à¤¿à¤¨à¥à¤¦à¥€) is a language spoken mainly in North and Central India. ... bay leaves Bay leaf (plural bay leaves) are the aromatic leaves of several species of the Laurel family (Lauraceae). ...

Species

partial list

C. acuminatifolium Hayata 1915
C. acuminatissimum Hayata 1913
C. acutatum Kosterm. 1961
C. africanum Lukmanoff 1889
C. aggregatum (Sims & sine ref.) Pilip. 1954
C. alainii (C.K.Allen) Kosterm. 1988, Alain 1982
C. alatum Lukmanoff 1889
C. albiflorum Nees 1831
C. albiflorum var. kwantungensis H. Liu 1934
C. albiflorum var. tonkinensis Lecomte 1914
C. alcinii (Allen) Kosterm. 1988
C. alexei Kosterm. 1969
C. alibertii Lukmanoff 1889
C. alternifolium Kosterm. 1970
C. altissimum Kosterm. 1988
C. ammannii Lukmanoff 1889
C. amoenum (Nees & Mart.) Kosterm. 1961
C. amoenum (Nees) Kosterm. 1961
C. amplexicaule (Cham. & Schltdl.) Kosterm. 1961
C. amplifolium (Mez & Donn.Sm.) Kosterm. 1961
C. anacardium Kosterm. 1986
C. andersonii Lukmanoff 1889
C. angustifolium Lukmanoff 1889
C. angustitepalum Kosterm. 1969
C. antillanum (Meisn.) Kosterm. 1988
C. antillarum Lukmanoff 1889
C. appelianum Schewe 1925
C. arbusculum Kosterm. 1970
C. archboldianum C. K. Allen 1942
C. areolatocostae (C. arelato-costae) (Allen) Kosterm. 1988
C. areolatum (Lundell) Kosterm. 1961
C. areolatum (Lundell) Kosterm. 1961
C. arfakense Kosterm. 1986
C. argenteum Gamble 1914
C. aromaticum Nees 1831
C. arsenei (C.K.Allen) Kosterm. 1961
C. asa-grayi Lukmanoff 1889
C. assamicum Luckmanoff 1889
C. aubletii Lukmanoff 1889
C. aureo-fulvum Gamble 1910
C. australe Vattimo-Gil 1962
C. austro-sinensis Hung T. Chang 1959
C. austroyunnanense (C. austro-yunnanense) H.W. Li 1978
C. bahianum Lukmanoff 1889
C. bahiense Vattimo-Gil 1977
C. baileyanum (F.Muell. ex F. M. Bailey) Francis 1951
C. baillonii
C. balansae
C. bamoense
C. barbato-axillatum
C. barbeyanum
C. barlowii
C. bartheifolium
C. barthii
C. bazania
C. beccarii
C. bejolghota
C. bengalense
C. biafranum
C. bintulense
C. birmanicum
C. blumei
C. bodinieri
C. bonii
C. bonplandii
C. borneense
C. bourgeauvianum
C. boutonii
C. brachythyrsum
C. bractefoliaceum

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Cinnamomum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (136 words)
	Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen trees and shrubs belonging to the Laurel family, Lauraceae.
	The species of Cinnamomum have aromatic oils in their leaves and bark.
	Notable Cinnamomum species include Cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum or C.

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	Cinnamomum usually coppices well and commercial production of the bark spices entails cutting the stems low down after an initial establishment period and harvesting the bushy re-growth stems at regular intervals thereafter.
	The diversity of Cinnamomum as a genus, although not as great as, say, Eucalyptus, has analogies with the latter in terms of the variety of chemical types of volatile oil that may be distilled from the plants.
	BRADU, B.L. and SOBTI, S.N. Cinnamomum tamala in NW Himalayas.

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