Information about camphor tree

Cinnamomum camphora is an evergreen tree of Lauraceae. As high as 50 meters and hundreds of years old, it is a towering old tree and an excellent landscaping tree. Bark is green and smooth when it is young; It gradually becomes yellowish brown or grayish brown longitudinal crack when it is old. Winter buds are oval. The leaves are thin leathery, ovoid or elliptic-ovoid, 5 5- 10/0cm long and 3.5-5.5cm wide, with short tip or near tail tip, rounded base, three veins from the base, the first or second pair of lateral veins near the base are long and protruding, the back is slightly covered with white powder, and there are glandular points in the axils of the veins. Yellow-green flowers, spring flowers, axillary panicles, small and numerous. Spherical fruit is dark purple when it matures, with a diameter of about 0.5 cm; The flowering period is from April to May, and the fruiting period is10-165438+10.