CINNAMON《DAALCHINNI》
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| CINNAMON |
■ Older minor tree spices known as spices.
■ Famous for its bark, it has a delicate scent and a pleasant, sweet and warm taste.
■ As a spice and condiments.
■ Also called Ceylon cinnamon or softwood.
■ Scientific name: cinnamomum verum or C. Zeylanicum.
■ Family: Lauraceae
■ Chromosome number 2n = 24
■ Origin: southern tropical coast of India and Sri Lanka.
■ Cultivation is limited to Kerala and Karnataka.
■ Cassia known as Chinese cinnamon also called false cinnamon bastard cinnamon.
USE OF CINNAMON
■ Every part of the tree to know. bark, wood, leaves, buds, flowers, fruits and roots are used for different purposes.
■ Eugenol contains a clove-like oil useful in the perfume and flavor industry.
■ Nuts are sometimes used as an adulterant on cloves.
BOTANY
■ Medium-sized tree.
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■ Small size flower having both male and female but cross pollination in nature.
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■ Fruit is berry.
CLIMATE AND SOIL
■ Most and warm climate is suitable for cultivation with an average temperature of 27 degrees Celsius.
■ Average rainfall varies from 2000 to 2500 mm.
■ It is a hardy plant and can survive in any type of soil.
■ Sandy soil mixed with humans is considered the best.
■ Stony and stony soil is inducible.
VARIETY OF CINNAMON
■ two popular varieties available in Sri Lanka which are sweet cinnamon and honey cinnamon.
■ Mat - pat and kurunchi
| CINNAMON FLOWER |
PROPAGATION OF CINNAMON
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■ Propagation through seeds.
■ Again, as a short cartoon of vitality and should be displayed immediately after collection.
■ The fruit ripens in July and August because it blooms in January.
■ Fruits are picked from trees or fallen branches are picked from the ground.
■ The seed will germinate 15-20 days after sowing.
■ the seedlings are transplanted into the main field when they are about 12 months old at a distance of 3 m in both directions.
ANOTHER METHOD OF PROPAGATION IN CINNAMON
■ Semi-hardwood cutter for hardwood cut from a 4-year-old tree is treated with Iba rooting hormone at a speed of 2500 ppm.
■ Layering
■ Tissue culture.
■ most appropriate sowing period in June July.
♢ COPPICING - CUTTING A YOUNG TREE NEAR THE GROUND PRODUCES A CORRECT SITE THIS PROCESS IS CALLED COPPICING .
■ Usually the plant is cut after 2 years and the steam is cut off at a distance of 10-15 cm from the ground and covered with soil.
■ This favors the formation of shoots.
HARVEST AND PROCESSING OF CINNAMON
■ The cinnamon tree can reach a height of between 10 and 15 m.
■ When the plant is 2 years old, it is harvested in June July up to a height of 12 cm from the ground.
■ An appropriate cut time is determined for SAP-referenced peeling between the wood and the cork layer.
■ If the rind separates easily, you can start cutting immediately.
■ The mass of the bark is obtained from shoots aged between 1.5 and 2 years.
■ The shoots selected for cutting are generally 1 meter long and 1-2 cm thick.
♢ QUILLINS - BROKEN LENGTHS AND FRAGMENTS OR PLUGS ARE SOLD AS QUILLINS.
♢ FEATHERS - THE INTERIOR WALL OF TWIGS AND FLAKES ARE SOLD UNDER THE NAME FEATHERS. THEY ARE ALSO AUTHENTIC CINNAMON.
♢ SCRAPPED CHIPS: OF THE THICK BARREL, THE BARK WEARS INSTEAD OF PEELING AND THIS DEGREE IS CALLED ENAMELED CHIPS.
♢ UNSCRAPPED CHIPS: THE BARK IS REMOVED EVEN WITHOUT REMOVING THE OUTER BARK AND IS KNOWN AS BROKEN CHIPS.
■ YIELD
2000-3000 kg of dry bark.
■ Disease
Leaf spot and dieback - Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Phytophthora (striped cancer) dieback - Phytophthora cinnamomi Downy mildew of the seedling - Diplodia spp.
■ Parasites
Cinnamon Butterfly - Chilasa clytia
Leaf miners: Acrocercops spp. Or Phyllocnistis chrysophthalma
Mites
Cinnamon bile mite - Aceria doctersi
Nematodes
Root nematode - Meloidogyne spp.
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