Laurel

Botany

Lauraceae, the botanical laurel family, including:

• Azores laurel (Laurus azorica)^wp
• Bay Laurel (Laurus nobilis), the original true laurel that is the source of bay leaves used as a food flavouring.
• California Laurel (Umbellularia californica), a related tree or large shrub.^wp
• Camphor Laurel (Cinnamomum camphora), a natural source of camphor.^wp
• True Cinnamon or Ceylon Cinnamon Cinnamomum verum, the inner bark of which is used as the spice cinnamon.^wp

Other unrelated plants:

• Cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus), an evergreen cherry, often called just laurel in gardens.^CH
• Cherry laurel (Prunus caroliniana), in America.^CH
• Great laurel (Rhododendron maximum), another shrub of the Appalachian mountains.^wp
• Ground laurel (Epigaea)^CH
• Indian laurel, certain species of fig trees or banyans.^wp
• Laurel sumac (Malosma laurina), an aromatic, evergreen shrub of the southern California and Baja California coastlands.^wp
• Kalmias are known as laurels^CH.
  • Mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), an evergreen shrub of the eastern United States highlands.^wp
• New Zealand laurel (Corynocarpus laevigatus), former name for Karaka tree.^wp
• Portugal laurel (Prunus lusitanica), also an evergreen cherry.^CH
• "Spotted laurel" refers to the variegata cultivar of the Aucuba Aucuba japonica.^wp