Cinnamomum camphora is 3-4m high and 25cm in diameter at breast height. The bark is light brown. Annual branches are slender, smooth, with longitudinal stripes, green, brown when dry, or sparsely or densely yellow-white pubescent, with dense bud scales at the base, annual branches are thick and hairless, and the cortex is irregularly longitudinally split.

Leaves alternate, usually lanceolate, ovoid or ovoid, 4-9 in length and 65,438 0.5-3 cm in width, with a tapering, acute, abrupt or sometimes near-tailed tip at the top and a wide wedge-shaped or near-rounded base; Thin skin to thick skin; The upper part is green and hairless, and the lower part is grayish green or yellowish brown, and then it gradually falls off and becomes fluffy or hairless, and the edge is rolled in.

Main value

1, economic value

Seed oil is used as raw material for soap, lubricating oil, ink and medical suppository; It can also be used as a substitute for cocoa butter; Oil meal can be used as fertilizer; This kind of fruit can be used as fuel locally. Aromatic oil can be extracted from the peel as perfume. Its wood structure is meticulous, firm and corrosion-resistant, and it is an excellent material for making farm tools, furniture and blockboards.

2. Ornamental value

The trunk is straight and the crown is dense. In landscape engineering, as a middle-level crown, it is resistant to shade and pruning, and can be used as a 3-5 m high hedge wall or isolation belt in the middle of a road. It is a good landscaping tree species. Dense planting on barren slopes is a good tree species for soil and water conservation; Planting in the middle isolation belt of highway, maintaining a certain height of top cutting and good canopy density.

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