CASSIA BUDS are the immature fruit of the same tree, and have been imported from China since the middle ages: in Southern India a very inferior variety is also produced. The leaves of other species of Cinnamomum are variously used in Mysore; while in Peru and Ecuador the large woody calyx of a lauraceous tree (Nectandra sp.) serves the same purpose. The 'white cinnamon' of the West Indies is Canella Bark (q.v.).
CASSIA BUDS
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 810
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