Mindanao cinnamon PRODUCT NAME
Cinnamomum mindanaense, Elm. SCIENTIFIC NAME
| Common Name: | Mindanao cinnamon |
| Local Name: | Kalingag (Surigao); Canela (Spanish in Zamboanga). |
| Family: | Lauraceae |
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| Product Description: | A small tree, about 10m in height. The leaves are opposite or sub-opposite, smooth, leathery, pointed at the both ends, and from 7-15cm in length. The flowers are greenish, about 5mm long, and borne on compound inflorescences. The fruit when mature are shining steel-blue, 1.25cm long, 7.5mm in width |
| NTFP Classification: | Food and food ingredients (plant-derived) |
DISTRIBUTION
| Countries Found: | Philippines |
| Description: | This species is known only from Mindanao, where it is fairly abundant in some places |
USES AND PARTS USED
| Parts Used: | bark, bast |
| Uses: | the bark is sold in commerce as cinnamon, and is the best cinnamon bark produced in the Philippines by a wild species |
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| Partners: | Bureau of Forestry, Philippines |
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