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Cinnamomum camphora - Karpura

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[[File:Starr-180406-0770-Cinnamomum camphora-leaves-DOFAW Arboretum Hilo-Hawaii (39560058730).jpg|thumb|right|''Karpura'', '' Cinnamomum camphora'']]
'''KarpuraCinnamomum camphora''', Cinnamomum camphora is a relatively fast-growing, evergreen tree with a dense crown; . it is usually grows from 10 - 15 metres tall, but can reach 40 metres. The bole, which usually branches from quite low down, can be up to 75cm in diameter. The plant is grown commercially in China and Japan as a medicinal tree and also for its essential oil, though most camphor oil on the market nowadays is produced synthetically. 
==Uses==
{{Uses|Improves digestive system}}, {{Uses|Inflammation}}, {{Uses|Decongestant}}, {{Uses|Cold and cough}}, {{Uses|Aphrodisiac}}, {{Uses|Arthritis}}
{{Parts Used|Extract}}
==Chemical Composition==
The plant contains a volatile oil comprising camphor, safrole, linalool, eugenol and terpeneol. It also contains lignans (including secoisosolariciresinol dimethyl ether and kusunokiol). Safrole is thought to be carcinogenic. The leaf oil is a natural source of linalool (94.9%); also contained citronellal (2.4%).
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==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|alternate| Leaves spirally arranged, glabrous, chartaceous to sub-coriaceous, ovate-elliptic to elliptic to subovate-elliptic, 1-5 x 3-10 cm, base acute or tapered-cuneate, both surfaces minutely reticulate or above smooth; main nerves slender. Petiole slender, 2-4 cm long.}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Bisexual|axillary panicles|greenish white||Panicles axillary, slender, glabrous, many-flowered, up to 10 cm long with few short branches. Pedicels 1-2 mm, obconical. Tepals ovate, acutish, fleshy, c. 2 mm. Stamens 1.5 mm long; anthers broad; inner anthers truncate, upper cells smaller, latrorse; gland large attached to the basal part of the filament. Staminodes stipitate. Style as long as the ovary with peltate triquetrous stigma.}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|A berry|5-10 mm in diameter|Fruit globose, slightly fleshy, 5-10 mm in diameter, seated on a shallow, thin cup, 3-5 mm in diameter at the apex, 1-2 mm deep, the basal part fleshy, obconical, usually not differentiated from the obconical pedicel, together 5-7 mm long.||}}
===Other features===

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