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Cinnamomum verum

(Common name:-Cinnamon)

Classification

Spice Description

Cinnamon is the dried inner bark of various evergreen trees belonging to the genus Cinnamomum. It has a warm and aromatic flavour and fragrance is sweet and woody in both ground and stick forms. When distilled it only gives a very small quantity of oil, with a delicious flavour. The best varieties are pale and parchment-like in appearance.

The commercial Cinnamon bark is the dried inner bark of the shoots. Both the bark and leaves are aromatic.

Plant Description

Cinnamomum verum

Cinnamon is from a tropical evergreen tree of the laurel family growing up to 7m (56 ft) in its wild state. It has thick scabrous bark, strong branches, young shoots speckled greeny orange.

The bark is smooth and yellowish.

The leaves are ovate, petiolate, deeply veined leaves that are dark green on top, lighter green underneath. They become leathery when mature, upper side shiny green, underside lighter. They when bruised smell spicy and have a hot taste.

The flowers are yellowish-white with a disagreeable odour that bears dark purple berries.

The fruit is an oval berry like an acorn in its receptacle, is bluish when ripe with white spots on it, bigger than a blackberry.

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