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An evergreen tree up to 18 m tall (in cultivation, it is usually a dense bushy plant about 2-3 m high), bole low-branching, up to 60 cm in diameter, buttresses 60 cm tall, 70 cm deep, thin, light pinkish-brown, bark about 10 mm thick, strongly aromatic, the bark on young shoots is smooth and pale brown, on mature branches and stems rough, dark brown or brownish-grey, oil cells are located in the phloem, and are oval or round in cross-section, wood of mature trees varies from light brownish-grey to grey or yellowish-brown, without markings, more or less lustrous and faintly scented. Leaves opposite, somewhat variable in form and size, strongly aromatic, petiole 1-2 cm long, grooved on upper surface, blade ovate to elliptical, 5-25 cm x 3-10 cm, conspicuously 3-veined, or 5-veined, base rounded, apex acuminate, glabrous, coriaceceous, shiny dark green. Inflorescence consisting of lax axillary or terminal panicles up to 10 cm long or longer, peduncle creamy white, softly hairy, 5-7 cm long, flowers small, 3 mm in diameter, with foetid smell, pale yellow, subtended by small ovate hairy bract, perianth 8 mm long, silky hairy, with short campanulate tube and 6 persistent tepals about 3 mm long, fertile stamens 9, in 3 whorls, with 2 small glands at the base of the stamens of the 3rd whorl, a fourth innermost whorl consists of 3 staminodes, filaments hairy, stout, anthers 4- or 2-celled, ovary superior, 1-celled, with a single ovule, style short. Fruit a 1-seeded berry, ellipsoidal to ovoid, 1-2 cm long, black when ripe, surrounded by the enlarged perianth at the base.

Related crop

  • Cinnamomum verum

Related invasive species

  • Yellows

Related Farm Practice

  • Light
  • Wood
Has Cabi datasheet ID
13573
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