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Cinnamomum aromaticum Nees

Chinese cinnamon; Cassia-bark; Cassia; Chinese-cassia

Lauraceae · China Southeast, Vietnam

No habitat climate
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Cinnamomum aromaticum, photograph Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons 2 photographs ›

About the genus · Cinnamomum

Cinnamomum is a genus of evergreen aromatic trees and shrubs belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae. The species of Cinnamomum have aromatic oils in their leaves and bark and are best known as the source of the spice cinnamon. The genus contains about 227 species, distributed in tropical and subtropical regions of South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia and Oceania/Australasia. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cinnamomum", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 30 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 30 of the 30 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina Southeast, Vietnam · introduced: China South-Central, Hainan, Taiwan, Bangladesh, India, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaya, Sumatera, Guatemala, Honduras, Trinidad-Tobago · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker15.339, 108.221 · in the densest population, 27 records (90% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 30 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 29 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 9 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 30 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 30 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Cinnamomum 18 in the reference

Cinnamomum austrosinense Cinnamomum austrosinense Lauraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 許文俊Cinnamomum bejolghota Cinnamomum bejolghota Lauraceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Dinesh ValkeCinnamomum burmanni Cinnamomum burmanni Batavia cinnamon Photo: CC0, author not statedCinnamomum camphora Cinnamomum camphora Camphor tree Photo: CC BY, 雲一百香果Cinnamomum chekiangense Cinnamomum chekiangense Hardy camphor tree Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te HsuCinnamomum daphnoides Cinnamomum daphnoides Lauraceae Photo: CC0, author not statedCinnamomum iners Cinnamomum iners Wild Cinnamon Photo: CC BY, Adam Kamal Cinnamomum insularimontanum Lauraceae Cinnamomum jensenianum Lauraceae Cinnamomum kotoense Cinnamomum kotoense Cinnamon plant Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te HsuCinnamomum malabatrum Cinnamomum malabatrum Lauraceae Photo: CC BY, T R Shankar RamanCinnamomum oliveri Cinnamomum oliveri Camphorwood Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg Tasney all 19 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Cinnamomum aromaticum var. longifolium; Cinnamomum cassia var. medium; Laurus cinnamomum; Laurus malabathrum; Laurus zeylanica. (GBIF Backbone)

GBIFPOWOIPNIWikidataiNaturalist

The record

Family
Lauraceae
Described by
Nees
Native to
China Southeast, Vietnam
Wild records
30 in range · 29 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 5 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (3 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2130 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Cinnamomum aromaticum Nees (the item's: IPNI none, POWO 463288-1)
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21Wikipedia redirects Cinnamomum aromaticum to Cinnamomum cassia
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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