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Dryobalanops aromatica, commonly known as Borneo camphor, camphor tree, Malay camphor, or Sumatran camphor, [3] is a species of plant in the family Dipterocarpaceae. The species name aromatica is derived from Latin ( aromaticus meaning spice-like) and refers to the smell of the dammar (resin).
Camphora officinarum is a species of evergreen tree indigenous to warm temperate to subtropical regions of East Asia, including countries such as China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan. It is known by various names, most notably the camphor tree, camphorwood or camphor laurel. [1] [2] [3]
The tree can grow up to 30 m tall, 2 m across; evergreen trees; bark brown, fissured; branchlets glabrous, and yellow-green in color; leaves alternate, coriaceous, entire, margins often wavy, broadly ovate, ovate to elliptic, polished, 10–15 cm long, 4–7.5 cm wide, green and glabrous on both sides, usually with 0–3 or often 5 main veins, rarely with pinnate veins, lateral veins 2–3 ...
Camphor (/ ˈ k æ m f ər /) is a waxy, colorless solid with a strong aroma. [5] It is classified as a terpenoid and a cyclic ketone.It is found in the wood of the camphor laurel (Cinnamomum camphora), a large evergreen tree found in East Asia; and in the kapur tree (Dryobalanops sp.), a tall timber tree from South East Asia.
Crotalaria cunninghamii - this form has distinctive green flowers in axillary clusters.. Crotalaria cunninghamii, also known as green bird flower, bird flower ratulpo, parrot pea, or regal bird flower, is a plant of the legume family Fabaceae, [1] named Crotalaria after the Greek word for rattle because their seeds rattle, and cunninghamii after early 19th-century botanist Allan Cunningham.
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Their leaves are alternate and pinnately veined or weakly tripliveined, which differed from the opposite or subopposite and tripliveined leaves of Cinnamomum species. [1] The tepals do not persist when fruiting, unlike in Cinnamomum species, where they are persistent or at least partially persistent. [ 2 ]
Camphora parthenoxylon is an evergreen tree, which grows up to 50 metres tall. [1] [11] with a trunk to 60 cm in diameter. [11] The tree has gray to brown bark. Its leaves are glossy green ovals 7–10 cm long with a point at the end. Like many plants in the Lauraceae, the leaves give off a pleasant smell when crushed. The flowers appear in ...