The origin of cinnamon is China.

Cinnamon, also known as Chinese cinnamon, jade cinnamon, oyster cinnamon, and fungus cinnamon, is a medium to large tree of the genus Camphor in the family Camphoraceae, which is native to China, but is also found in India, Laos, and Vietnam to Indonesia. Cinnamon has grayish-brown bark and is often used as a spice, cooking ingredient and medicine. The leaves are green, glossy and hairless, long oval. The flowers are white and bloom from June to August, and the fruit is hairless and oval, blackish-purple when ripe, and fruits from October to December.

Cinnamon likes warm climate, born in subtropical areas without frost. Suitable growing temperature is 26-30 ℃, 20 ℃ below the growth of slow, at the same time, cinnamon also like a moist environment, but not waterlogged, requiring abundant rainfall, relative humidity of more than 70%.

Cinnamon related introduction

Cinnamon, camphor plant cinnamon dried bark and branch bark, cinnamon tree is a medium-large tree plant. Cinnamon is native to China, widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical areas, China in Guangxi cultivation more, India, Laos, Vietnam to Indonesia and other places are also distributed, but most of the artificial cultivation.

The propagation of cinnamon includes seed propagation, tiller propagation, pressure propagation and cuttings propagation. Cinnamon like warm climate, like wet, require abundant rainfall, is a semi-shade species, seedlings like shade, adult trees in more sunlight in order to grow normally, require a deep layer of soil, loose texture, good drainage, strong permeability of sandy loam.

Cinnamon has a high economic value, cinnamon powder is usually used in Western countries to bake bread, snacks, pickled meat food, cinnamon parts can be extracted cinnamon oil, can be used as raw materials for cosmetics, but also for chocolate and cigarette ingredients. Cinnamon tree material is excellent, detailed structure, not easy to crack, can make high-grade furniture, while evergreen, leafy branches, beautiful tree, flowers and fruits smell fragrant, but also a kind of green tree species.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia - Cinnamon (Camphoraceae)