Cinnamomum verumJ.Presl

cinnamon

WFO wfo-0000605512 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Cinnamomum verum, photographed by Ong Jyh Seng
fig. a Ong Jyh Seng, CC BY-SA 4.0 / 2021-05-07 / obs. 127086668
Cinnamomum verum, photographed by bat (Maria Vorontsova)
fig. b bat (Maria Vorontsova), CC0 1.0 / obs. 103531192
Cinnamomum verum, photographed by bat (Maria Vorontsova)
fig. c bat (Maria Vorontsova), CC0 1.0 / obs. 103531283
Cinnamomum verum, photographed by Rohit Naniwadekar
fig. d Rohit Naniwadekar, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 45400126
Cinnamomum verum, photographed by Jake Gross
fig. e Jake Gross, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28074620
Cinnamomum verum, photographed by Jake Gross
fig. f Jake Gross, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28074608
Cinnamomum verum, photographed by Jake Gross
fig. g Jake Gross, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28074612
Cinnamomum verum, photographed by Jake Gross
fig. h Jake Gross, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 28074659

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Cinnamomum verum is native: Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Native distribution of Cinnamomum verum, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Sri Lanka SRL ASIA-TROPICAL

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 66 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Camphora mauritiana Lukman.
  • Camphorina cinnamomum (L.) Farw.
  • Cinnamomum alexii Kosterm.
  • Cinnamomum antillarum Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum aromaticum J.Graham
  • Cinnamomum barthii Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum bengalense Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum biafranum Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum bonplandii Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum boutonii Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum capense Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum carolinense var. oblongum Kaneh.
  • Cinnamomum cayennense Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum cinnamomum (L.) H.Karst.
  • Cinnamomum commersonii Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum cordifolium Blume ex Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum decandollei Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum delessertii Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum ellipticum Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum erectum Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum humboldtii Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum iners Wight
  • Cinnamomum karrouwa Lukman.
  • Cinnamomum leptopus A.C.Sm.

and 42 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.