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Cinnamomum loureiroi
Also called Saigon Cassia, Vietnamese Cinnamon
Saigon cinnamon is an evergreen tree from mainland Southeast Asia, grown mainly for its high-quality bark used as a spice. It needs warm, humid, frost-free conditions and is rarely grown as a houseplant.
Saigon cinnamon (Cinnamomum loureiroi, also known as Vietnamese cinnamon or Vietnamese cassia and quế Trà My, quế Thanh, quế Quỳ (Quỳ Châu, Quỳ Hợp) or quế Trà Bồng in Vietnam) is an evergreen tree indigenous to mainland Southeast Asia. Saigon cinnamon is more closely related to cassia (C. cassia) than to Ceylon cinnamon (C. verum), though in the same genus as both. Saigon cinnamon has 1–5% essential oil content and 25% cinnamaldehyde in essential oil. Consequently, among the species, Saigon cinnamon commands a relatively high price.
The scientific name was originally spelled as Cinnamomum loureirii, but because the species is named after the botanist João de Loureiro, this is to be treated under the ICN as an orthographic error for the correctly derived spelling of loureiroi.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Saigon cinnamon by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
