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Scientific name

Camphora officinarum Nees

Family

Lauraceae

Japanese

クスノキ

English

Camphor tree

General information

flowering period

Monthly blossoming season, distribution

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12

Stems

Winter buds scales look like imbrication

Leaves

Alternate, thin coriaceous, smelling fragrant when cutting, ovate or ovate elliptic, apex cuspidate and base cuneate or rounded, both sides glabrous and margins sinuate, back sides grayish green, young leaves reddish and have 3 clear veins, juction of 3 veins have usually have 2 glands

Inflorescences

bisexual flowers, panicle, bearing at axil of twigs

Habit

Valley, under 500 meters above the sea level in Jeju-do

Distribution

China Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan , Korea(Jeju-do, planting at South area)

English common name

Camphor tree

Life cycle

Evergreen broadleaf tree

Flowering

May

Seed production and maturing

Oct.-Nov.

Height

2m

Root

Have tap roots and lateral roots

Flower color

white, change after yellow

Fruit

Berry, rounded and ripen in black coloured

Use

Planting for ornamental, woodes used for craft, furniture, fresh leaves used for tea and bath preparation, plants used for medicine(beriberi, bruise, scabies etc.)

Bark

Dark brown, divided deep vertically

Branches

Twigs yellowish green, glossy and have lenticels, glabrous

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Specimen Information More Specimen Information

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  [ADNA201206154012]

  2008-06-16 / / 안동대학교 식물표본관

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  [ADNA201206154013]

  2008-06-16 / / 안동대학교 식물표본관

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