Camphor
Camphora officinarum
Camphora officinarum is a species of evergreen tree indigenous to warm temperate to subtropical regions of East Asia, including countries such as China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan. It is known by various names, most notably the camphor tree, camphorwood or camphor laurel.
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms: Plants and Trees
王圻, 王思義 · 1609 · p.52
Exotic Pleasures (Persia and Asia observations)
Engelbert Kaempfer · 1712 · p.861
Garden of Health
1507 · p.76
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.114
Stirpium adversaria nova
Matthias de Lobel · 1571 · p.198
Compendium of Materia Medica
李時珍 · 1596 · p.118
Compendium of Materia Medica
李時珍 · 1596 · p.110
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx — Moninckx Atlas, vol. 3 (1686)
Jan Moninckx; Maria Moninckx · 1686 · p.43
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 30)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.123
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 35)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.28
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.318
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1591063.