Cinnamomum camphora

Detailed description

Trees 15‒30 m tall, with stout trunk and broad spreading crown. Bark light brown or greyish-brown, rugose, tessellated, finely fissured strongly aromatic bark. Young branches glabrous, maroon, reddish or green, rounded. Leaf buds prominent enclosed by caducous scales. Leaves alternatively arranged or in pseudo-whorls; petioles 15‒40 mm long, glabrous; lamina 45‒110 ×24‒60 mm, elliptic, ovate-lanceolate, ovate to broadly ovate, glabrous, adaxially glossy green to yellow-green (young growth usually flushed pink), abaxially glaucous or dull green, adaxial midrib yellowish to cream prominent, side-veins three, prominent, apex apiculate, base attenuate to narrowly cuneate. Domatia pouched, domatium located within axils of midrib and basal secondary veins, and sometimes between secondary and tertiary veins. Inflorescence a terminal to sub-terminal 8‒16‒20 or more-flowered panicle 70‒80(‒120) mm long. Flowers 5‒8 mm diameter, petals 1.5‒2.5(‒3.2) mm long, ovate to truncate, greenish-white, white to pale yellow Fruit a globular glossy black drupe 8‒10 mm diameter, held embedded in a cupular green to glaucous green receptacle 5‒6 mm diameter.