Cinnamomum japonicum

Japanese cinnamon tree or camphor laurel or Japanese camphor tree is in the laurelor Lauraceae family and is native to Japan, Korea, Taiwan and eastern China (Anhui, Fujian, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang provinces). It can reach up to 15 m tall. Trees are camphor-scented.

The species is also referred to as Cinnamomum pedunculatum.

• Leaves are evergreen, alternate, ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceoate, leathery, glabrous on both surfaces, 7–10 cm long and 3–3.5 cm across; surface is green and shiny above, gray-green and opaque below; apex is acute; no teeth on margins.
• Flowers flowers are 4.5 mm long, forming 3–5 flower cymes; flowering is in April-May.
• Fruit is oblong, 7 mm long and 5 mm across, apex very open and up to 5 mm wide, entire or shallowly dentate on margin, base abruptly contracted into a slender stalk, ripening in July to September.