Bodinier Cinnamon
Cinnamomum bodinieri
Camphora bodinieri is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae, native to southern China. A tree reaching 16 m (52 ft), it is typically found in situations with more light, such as alongside roads and streams or in open forests and thickets. Its essential oil is high in citral. It is used as a street tree in a number of southern Chinese cities.
The species was first described as Cinnamomum bodinieri by Augustin Abel Hector Léveillé in 1912. In 2022 Yong Yang, Bing Liu, and Zhi Yang placed the species in genus Camphora as Camphora bodinieri.
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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 931492.