Cinnamomum camphora (L.) J.Presl

 
  • Family : LAURACEAE
    (LAUREL FAMILY)
  • Family (as per The Plant List) : Lauraceae
  • Species : Cinnamomum camphora
  • Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Cinnamomum camphora (L.) J.Presl
  • Common name : Camphor Tree
  • Vernacular name : Kapur (Hin.); Karpura (Kan.); Lavangam (Tam.); Karpuram (Tel.); Karpurah (San.)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Flower, Fruit : November
  • Native : Japan
  • Comments : Often planted. Sometimes seen in border of forests with other evergreen plants of higher elevations.
  • Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
  • World Distribution : Cultivated in tropics.
  • Literature : H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983.
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Arun Singh R., Deepak Kumar, Raja K Swamy and Navendu Page (2016). Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats. http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in/plants.php?name=Cinnamomum camphora. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Comments

All fields are required






 
Creative Commons License
Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at http://easternghats.ces.iisc.ernet.in.