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Scientific name: Cinnamomum camphora.

Family: Cinnamomum of Lauraceae.

Alias: Cinnamomum camphora, Cinnamomum camphora, Cinnamomum camphora, Cinnamomum camphora, Cinnamomum camphora, Cinnamomum camphora.

National second-class key protected wild plants (approved by the State Council 1999)

Cinnamomum camphora is an evergreen tree of Lauraceae in Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi and southern Sichuan. As high as 50 meters and hundreds of years old, it is a towering old tree and an excellent landscaping tree. When young, the bark is green and smooth, and gradually becomes yellowish brown or grayish brown longitudinal crack when old; Winter buds are oval. The leaves are thin leathery, ovoid or elliptic-ovoid, 5 5- 10/0cm long and 3.5-5.5cm wide, with short tip or near tail tip, rounded base, three veins from the base, the first or second pair of lateral veins near the base are long and protruding, the back is slightly covered with white powder, and there are glandular points in the axils of the veins. Yellow-green flowers, spring flowers, axillary panicles, small and numerous. Spherical fruit is dark purple when it matures, with a diameter of about 0.5 cm; The flowering period is from April to May, and the fruiting period is10-165438+10.

The taupe bark has fine longitudinal cracks in the deep groove. The whole plant of Cinnamomum camphora has a smell similar to camphor, with alternate leaves, paper or thin leather, and the trunk has obvious longitudinal cracks, which is very easy to identify. It is said that it is of great significance because there are many lines on camphor wood. So add a wooden character next to the word "Zhang" as the name of the tree.

Camphor tree is an evergreen tree. Its evergreen is not deciduous, but after the new leaves grow in spring, the old leaves began to fall off last year, so it presents a scene full of green all year round ... Cinnamomum camphora's florets are very unique, with 6 flowers on the periphery that are difficult to distinguish between calyx or petals, 9 stamens in the center, and every 3 flowers are arranged in 1 round.