Yibin Camphor [Sichuan Yibin Specialty]

What is Yibin Camphor Tree? Authentic Sichuan Yibin Specialty: Yibin Camphor

Content Summary:Do you want to know what Yibin Camphor is? This article is a detailed introduction to the specialty of Yibin, Sichuan Province - Yibin Camphor Tree. It was compiled by the editorial team of China Specialty Network, who reviewed and collected relevant information on Yibin Camphor Tree. The full text takes about 5 minutes to read, mainly including the basic introduction of Yibin Camphor Tree

Basic Introduction of Yibin Camphor

Yibin Camphor is a precious tree species of the Camphor family in the Yibin County Forestry Science and Technology Promotion Station

Camphor is endemic to Yibin, China except for Taiwan Province, and is also known as "Yibin Camphor". Cinnamomum camphora is an evergreen tree with a height of up to 50m and a diameter at breast height of 3m. It has the characteristics of fast growth rate, strong sprouting, high leaf load, few pests and diseases, beautiful tree shape, majestic posture, flexible wood, dense texture, and a lifespan of up to a thousand years. It is the preferred tree species for large-scale afforestation and surrounding greening. Among them, Fufu Village in Gubai Township, Yibin County is the most representative, with a camphor tree coverage rate of over 90%, and is known as the first village in China's camphor tree town

Trees, up to 20 meters tall, with a diameter at breast height of 50 centimeters; The bark is gray and smooth. Branches cylindrical, hairless, young branches slender, somewhat flattened, hairless. The buds are large, oval shaped, up to 8 millimeters long, with dense scales and oval shapes. The tips have small protrusions and are densely covered with grayish white soft hairs on the outside. Leaves alternate, ovate or elliptical in shape, 6-12 cm long and 3.5-6.5 cm wide, with a sudden short to long apex, often sickle shaped, and a wedge-shaped to nearly circular base. The edges are cartilaginous, inwardly rolled, and thinly leathery, with a dark green and shiny upper surface and a grayish green and dull lower surface. Both sides are hairless, with feather veins and about 4-5 lateral veins on each side. The bottom pair of lateral veins sometimes alternate and appear as three veins off the base. The midrib and lateral veins protrude on both sides, and the lateral veins disappear towards the leaf edge. The axils of the lateral veins are raised in a bubbly manner above, and there are small glandular nests below. The transverse veins are more or less obvious on both sides, and the fine veins are networked. Both sides are magnified under a microscope. Below is a small shallow pit acupoint; The petiole is 2-3.5 centimeters long, flat on the abdomen and convex on the back, light green, slightly reddish, and hairless

The inflorescence is axillary, slender, 9-20 cm long, with branches, weak branches, forked, up to 5 cm long, with a bipartite end and 3-7 flowers per branch. The inflorescence axis is hairless, and the total stem is slender, 3-10 cm long. The flower is light yellow with a fragrant aroma, measuring 2.5 millimeters in length and reaching a diameter of 4 millimeters when unfolded; The flower stem is slender, 2-3 millimeters long, and hairless. The corolla tube is conical in shape, about 1 millimeter long, with 6 segments. It is oval in shape, about 1.5 millimeters long, nearly equal in size, with a sharp tip. It is hairless on the outside and densely covered with white filamentous soft hairs on the inside, with glandular dots. Capable of producing stamens 9, with white soft hairs on the filaments. The first and second stamens are about 1.5 millimeters long, with no glands on the filaments. The anthers are oval shaped and elongated, with 4 chambers, inward. The third stamen is 1.8 millimeters long, with an elongated anthers, slightly shorter than the filaments, and 4 chambers, outward. The base of the filaments has a pair of round kidney shaped glands with short stalks. Degenerative stamen 3, located in the innermost ring, about 1 millimeter long, covered with white soft hairs. Ovary ovate, about 1 millimeter long, hairless, style slender, 1.5 millimeters long, stigma indistinct. The young fruit is spherical, green, with a diameter of about 8 millimeters; The fruit stalk is 5 millimeters long, with a disk-shaped enlargement at the top and a width of up to 4 millimeters. The flowering period is from May to June, and the fruiting period is from July to September