How does cinnamon grow?

Question

Is cinnamon made from the bark of a tree or something?

Answer 1

Cinnamon is a small evergreen tree 10-15 m tall, belonging to the family Lauraceae, native to Sri Lanka and Southern India. The bark is widely used as a spice.
Most of what we use in the US and is called cinnamon is actually not from the bark of this tree, but from a related species called Cassia How's that for bait n switch?

Answer 2

Best just to buy the cinnamon and grow the herbs that do well in your area because a cinnamon tree needs to be rather large to harvest it's bark (that's what it is) thus taking years to grow in a greenhouse. Make a list of the teas you like and email it to me, I'll tell you their hardiness for your location as long as you give a better idea of location as the US-Canadin border is quite long and growing plants in British Columbia is WAY different than Nova Scotia.

Answer 3

innamon (Cinnamomum verum, synonym C. zeylanicum) is a small evergreen tree 10-15 m tall, belonging to the family Lauraceae, native to Sri Lanka and Southern India. The bark is widely used as a spice.

The leaves are ovate-oblong in shape, 7-18 cm long. The flowers, which are arranged in panicles, have a greenish colour and a rather disagreeable odour. The fruit is a purple one-centimetre berry containing a single seed.

Its flavour is due to an aromatic essential oil which makes up 0.5 to 1% of its composition. This oil is prepared by roughly pounding the bark, macerating it in sea-water, and then quickly distilling the whole. It is of a golden-yellow colour, with the characteristic odour of cinnamon and a very hot aromatic taste. The pungent taste and scent come from cinnamic aldehyde or cinnamaldehyde and, by the absorption of oxygen as it ages, it darkens in colour and develops resinous compounds. Chemical components of the essential oil include ethyl cinnamate, eugenol, cinnamaldehyde, beta-caryophyllene, linalool and methyl chavicol.

The name cinnamon comes from Greek kinnámōmon, from Phoenician and akin to Hebrew qinnâmôn, itself ultimately from a Malaysian language, cf. Malay and Indonesian kayu manis "sweet wood".

Answer 4

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