True Cinnamon - Cinnamomum verum

Grow your own exotic spice! True cinnamon is a great addition tucked into your food forest.

Growing over 30 feet tall, true cinnamon is a slow growing spice tree that once mature can be easily zone pushed into zone 9b due to its ability to thrive in protected under canopy locations in dappled shade. The cinnamon spice of commerce is the inner bark of this tree- to harvest mature branches are cut and the bark peeled away to reveal the inner bark which is then peeled off and allowed to dry into “quills” aka cinnamon sticks. In commercial production trees are occasionally coppiced and vigorous upright branches are allowed to grow to be harvested to create especially clean quills. If this seems like too much work, the leaves are also a valued spice that can be utilized similarly to bay leaves- brewed in tea, or otherwise extracted to be utilized.

Hardy to the very high 20s if grown in a protected location our mother tree has thrived under oak canopy for well over a decade without issue in zone 9b. In colder locations this is can be grown as a container species.   

Plants available are small seedings in grow bags.