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🌱 Cinnamon Tree

Cinnamomum verum
spices evergreen tree
☀️ Sun
full sun to partial shade
💧 Water
high
🗺️ Zones
[10,11]
🧪 Soil pH
4.5-7.0
🪴 Soil Type
well-drained, sandy loam
📏 Spacing
10-15 ft
📐 Height
30-50 ft (coppiced to 6-8 ft for harvest)
⏱️ Maturity
2-3 yrs to first harvest

🤝 Companions (3)

🤝 Banana
Shade and humidity for young trees
🤝 Coffee
Traditional overstory; coffee understory
🤝 Ginger
Understory crop; complementary root depths

⚠️ Keep Apart (1)

⚠️ none — but needs tropical climate

📝 Growing Notes

Harvested by coppicing — inner bark peeled, rolled, dried into quills. Ceylon (true cinnamon) crumbly and sweet. Cassia is what most Americans have.

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