Large bunch of cinnamon sticks - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 69750 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 143.01 LAURACEAE Cinnamomum zeylanicum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Large bunch of cinnamon sticks | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Large bunch of cinnamon sticks | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Large bunch of cinnamon sticksUse: FOOD User: Man | TDWG use | FOOD | ||
| Storage | Bottles etc, outsize | Related Items | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Inner bark of the shoots and some other supposed species. Cultivated in many parts of India, in Ceylon, the E Indian Islands, S America, the W Indies, Mautitius, Bourbon, the E Coast of Africa etc. The principal part of the cinnamon used i, n England is imported from Ceylon; a small quantity comes from Madras, Tillicherry and Java. Cinnamon is gathered twice a year; the shoots about 3 years old being selected. The rough outer bark is first removed; the inner or Cinnamon bark is then cut thr, ough longitudinally with the point of a knife, carefully loosened, and finally removed. It is afterwards dried in the sun, when it gradually rolls up, forming what are technically called quills, which are placed within each other, and tied up in bundles, for market. The use of cinnamon in cookery as an agreeable condiment is well known; it is also used in perfumery. Medicinally, it is cordial, stimulant and tonic. By distillation is yields oil of cinnamon.x0Dx0APlants + People exhibition Museum No 1, Kew., May 1998 to May 2016. | ||||