Laurel
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Jump to navigationJump to searchLauraceae, 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 laurelsCH.
- 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