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Family: Lauraceae	Genus: Cinnamomum	Species: Cinnamomum camphora (Linn.) J.Presl

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Camphora camphora (Linn.) H.Karst., Camphora officinarum Nees	Flower Color	Greenish
Common Name	Camphora tree, Kapur	Flower Type	Panicle
English / Trade Name	Camphor Tree,Camphor Laurel	Flowering Period	Jan-March
Vernacular /Local Name	Kapur	Fruiting Period	April-June
Altitude	Up To 1350-1800 M	Fruit Type	Berry
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Globose, Fleshy Less Than 1 Cm In Diameter That Ripens To Purple Black And Is Partly Surrounded By A Cup-like Perianth
Habitat	Cultivated And Occasionally Naturalized	Bark Type	Fissured
Distribution	China, Taiwan, Eastern Asia And Japan	Bark Details	Bark yellow-brown, irregularly and longitudinally fissured
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park	Origin	Native
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Ovate
Description of Species	Evergreen trees, up to 30 m tall, Bark yellow-brown, irregularly and longitudinally fissured. Leaves spirally arranged, glabrous, chartaceous to sub-coriaceous, ovate-elliptic to elliptic to subovate-elliptic, 1-5 x 3-10 cm. Petiole slender, 2-4 cm long. Flowers green-white or yellowish, ca. 3 mm Panicles axillary, slender, glabrous, many-flowered, up to 10 cm long. Stamens 1.5 mm long. Anthers broad, filaments as long, pilose, inner anthers truncate, upper cells smaller, latrorse, gland large, attached to the basal part of the filament. Style as long as the ovary with peltate triquetrous stigma. Fruit purple-black, ovoid or subglo- bose, 6–8 mm in diam. Perianth cup in fruit cupuliform, ca. 5 mm, longitudinally sulcate, base ca. 1 mm wide, apex truncate and up to 4 mm wide	Leaf Details	1-5 X 3-10 Cm, Base Acute Or Tapered-cuneate, Both Surfaces Minutely Reticulate Or Above Smooth; Main Nerves Slender; The Sub-basal Lateral Nerves Ascendent To 1/2- 2/3 The Lamina Length

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