Cinnamon myrtle, is a spice form of Backhousia myrtifolia. This small rainforest tree species grows in subtropical rainforests of Eastern Australia. B. myrtifolia is also known as carrol or grey myrtle. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms (as opposed to folk taxonomy). ... Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta - rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta - zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta - trimerophytes Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders See text. ... Orders See text The botanical Sub-class Rosidae is a large dicotyledonous flowering plant taxon, containing over 58,000 species grouped within 108 families. ... Families See text. ... Genera 130; see list The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon plants, placed within the order Myrtales. ... Species Backhousia anisata Backhousia bandcroftii Backhousia citriodora Backhousia hughesii Backhousia myrtifolia Backhousia sciadophora Backhousia is a small genus of six species of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae, native to the rainforests of eastern Australia. ... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Screen shot of Spice OPUS, a fork of Berkeley SPICE SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuits Emphasis) is a general purpose analog circuit simulator. ... The Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, Australia. ... Subtropical (or semitropical) areas are those adjacent to the tropics, usually roughly defined as the ranges 23. ...

The name 'cinnamon myrtle' was used to differentiate the elemicin essential oil variant as being especially suitable for flavouring in bushfood cooking in the late 1980s. However, the name 'cinnamon myrtle' become incorrectly used to describe the species in general. Elemicin is a psychoactive component of oil of nutmeg. ... Bushfood refers to any Australian native food, although it sometimes is used with the specific connotation of food found in the Outback while living on the land. It is also called bushtucker. ...

The true cinnamon myrtle has a cinnamon-like flavour and is used in herb-tea infusions, spiced jams, and sauces. The other essential oil types of B. myrtifolia also have essential oil qualities and are used, but are considered to be inferior in flavour to the elemicin chemovar.

Cinnamon myrtle is part of a group of related Myrtaceae family members that were popularized as spices in Australian bushfood cuisine in the late 1980s and early 1990s. This group of plants also includes lemon myrtle (Backhousia citriodora) and aniseed myrtle (Anetholea anisata). Genera 130; see list The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of dicotyledon plants, placed within the order Myrtales. ... Scientific name: Backhousia Citriodora. ... Binomial name Anetholea anisata (Vickery) Peter G. Wilson Anetholea anisata (formerly Backhousia anisata), or Aniseed Myrtle, or Ringwood is an Australian rainforest tree with an aromatic leaf that has a similar essential oil profile to true aniseed. ...

Cinnamon myrtle has retained relative obscurity as a spice and has not been commercially developed to the same extent as the other species due to the lower essential oil yields. Which has been tested at 0.3% fresh weight.