The cinnamon bark tree has ovate or ovate-oblong leaves and ovoid fruits, and the tree is about 25 meters tall.

Cinnamon tree (Latin name: Cinnamomum?wilsonii?Gamble), alias Chuan Gui. Trees of the genus Camphoria, family Camphoraceae. Included in the "IUCN Red List of Threatened Species" non-threatened level. The main morphological characteristics of the cinnamon tree plant up to 25 meters high. Leaves are ovate or ovate-oblong, green, shiny, glabrous, 8.5 to 18 centimeters long, with an acuminate apex and a cuneate or subcircular base. Flowers white, inflorescences 3 to 9 centimeters long, few-flowered, glabrous or sparsely pilose along with the rachis.

Fruit ovoid, receptacle truncate, lobes short. It is mainly found in Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Hubei. It grows in valleys or mountain slopes in sunny places or along ditches, in sparse or dense forests at altitudes from 30 to 2400 meters. It flowers from April to May and fruits from August to October. Branches, leaves and fruits contain aromatic oil, and the oil is used as a raw material for flavoring food or soap.

Selection of cinnamon trees and peeling time

Generally, you have to choose cinnamon trees that are more than four to five years old, and peeling operation is carried out on the parts where the skin is easy to peel off, preferably in April or May, or in September time to carry out.

Barking method, can be divided into strip barking and ring barking two kinds: strip barking did not completely cut off the nutrient channels of the cinnamon tree, cinnamon tree can still survive; ring barking, to let the cinnamon tree to continue to survive, we have to take certain measures, usually spray "cinnamon bark regeneration agent" and transparent plastic film wrapped in the method of

But in order to pursue higher economic benefits, the current artificial cultivation of the cinnamon tree is mostly a cut, this is a cut cinnamon tree is often poor growth, or even death, tree growers are cut after replanting, a cycle of peeling.