Cinnamomum camphora is a national protected plant.

Cinnamomum camphora is a national second-class protected plant, which was jointly released by the State Forestry Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture in 1999 with the approval of the State Council. Among them, 51 kinds are included in the first-class protection. There are 213 kinds of secondary protection. Included in the first batch of wild plants under secondary protection, including camphor tree.

Cinnamomum camphora, belonging to Lauraceae, is an evergreen tree with a height of about 11-55 meters, a diameter of up to 3 meters and a broad oval crown. With broad crown, dense branches and leaves, magnificent momentum and evergreen seasons, it is an excellent greening tree, street tree and courtyard shade tree in southern cities of China.

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Cinnamomum camphora is mainly distributed in the south of the Yangtze River valley in China, with Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Taiwan Province, Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan and other southern regions being the most abundant. Most of them are born in sunny slopes, hills and valleys of low mountains, and their vertical distribution is mostly below 511~611m above sea level. There are natural camphor trees in the mountains at 1811m above sea level in north-central Taiwan Province. It grows most vigorously below 1511m and is an important tree species in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest in China.

Cinnamomum camphora likes light, its seedlings and young trees are shade-tolerant, and they like warm and humid climate. They are not cold-tolerant, and they are afraid of cold. The lowest temperature in winter should not be lower than 1 degrees, which will cause freezing injury, and below 5-8 degrees below zero, they will die of frostbite.

Cinnamomum camphora grows well in deep, fertile and moist acidic or neutral yellow soil and red soil, and is not tolerant to drought, barren and saline-alkali soil, with strong germination and pruning resistance. Strong resistance to sulfur dioxide, ozone and smoke pollution, and can absorb a variety of toxic gases.