Boundary: Botany Family: Mignonaceae
Genus: Mignonette Distribution: China's South Ridge to the south of the Qinling-Huaihe River Basin in the north of the vast areas of cultivation
Mignonette: usually referred to as the cinnamon, also known as rock laurel.
Mignonette family evergreen trees, more than ten feet high, there are also short as a shrub. Dry gray, skin smooth; young branches yellow, skin rough. Leaves long, elliptic and pointed, leathery, dark green, opposite, serrate. Small flowers from the leaf axils in late autumn, sympetalous corolla, four-lobed, yellow, white, orange-red and other colors, very fragrant.
Historical records:
The Book of the Fangs: "The white one is called silver laurel. The yellow one is called Golden Cinnamon, which can bear seeds. The red one is called Dan Gui. There are fall flowers, spring flowers, month-by-month flowers." Mignonette Department of China's specialty flowers, cultivation history of ancient, now many places still have ancient trees grow. Shaanxi hanzhong saint water temple has a "han gui", changshu xingfu temple has a "tang gui", sichuan beibei jinyun mountain foothills has a "song gui", big lake has a "guangfu gui", are very old and lush. Clumps of osmanthus to hangzhou manjulong miles of osmanthus forest is the most famous. China's southwest provinces are the origin of osmanthus. Ancient Chengdu in August to sell osmanthus city and Guangzhou in August to sell Su Xin flower market with its special local color famous in the world.