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Cinnamomum camphora
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Family:
LAURACEAE
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Citation: Cinnamomum camphora (L.) Presl, Prir. Rostl. 2: 47. t. 8. 1825; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 134. 1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1225(858). 1925; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 323. 1985; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 393. 1994.
Laurus camphora L., Sp. Pl. 369. 1753.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Chudakarppuram, Ghanarasam, Himasu, Himavaluka, Karpuramaram, Karpuram, Sitamsu
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Camphor tree, Camphor Laurel
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Description:
Trees large; branchlets slender, glabrous; terminal buds large, perulate, the outer bud scales glabrous, the inner sericeous. Leaves spirally arranged, glabrous, chartaceous to sub-coriaceous, ovate-elliptic to elliptic to subovate-elliptic, 1-5 x 3-10 cm, base acute or tapered-cuneate, both surfaces minutely reticulate or above smooth; main nerves slender. Petiole slender, 2-4 cm long. Panicles axillary, slender, glabrous, many-flowered, up to 10 cm long with few short branches. Pedicels 1-2 mm, obconical. Tepals ovate, acutish, fleshy, c. 2 mm. Stamens 1.5 mm long; anthers broad; inner anthers truncate, upper cells smaller, latrorse; gland large attached to the basal part of the filament. Staminodes stipitate. Style as long as the ovary with peltate triquetrous stigma. Fruit globose, slightly fleshy, 5-10 mm in diameter, seated on a shallow, thin cup, 3-5 mm in diameter at the apex, 1-2 mm deep, the basal part fleshy, obconical, usually not differentiated from the obconical pedicel, together 5-7 mm long.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Kasaragode, Thrissur, Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikkode, Malappuram
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Cultivated
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Distribution:
Native of Japan; widely cultivated
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Taliparamba
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