Ceylon cinnamon
Thin inner-bark quills distinguish Ceylon cinnamon from thicker cassia bark. Compare aroma, bark structure and finished-product flavour rather than treating all cinnamon materials as interchangeable.
- Botanical identity
- Cinnamomum verum (syn. C. zeylanicum)
- Plant part
- Inner bark
- Category
- Spices & seeds
Available forms
- Whole
- C/S — Photographic cut-bark reference. Confirm the 2–4 mm specification with a batch sample.
- TBC — Cinnamon cut-format reference; approve a Ceylon batch sample before ordering.
- Powder — Cinnamon cut-format reference; approve a Ceylon batch sample before ordering.
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Photographs & adaptations
Whole capsule photograph and licence
Representative Ceylon cinnamon photograph, not a Root2Leaf supplied batch or evidence of organic certification. Photo: Cinnamomum verum spices — Simon A. Eugster / source, CC BY-SA 3.0. The source is focus-stacked photography. Adaptations: whole sticks selected with a hand-traced, foreground-protected background mask, rotated, proportionally resized and cropped into the capsule shape. Powder and flowers from the source are excluded. No generated material, tiling, recolouring or ownership watermark. This photographic adaptation is licensed CC BY-SA 3.0. The other Ceylon views retain their existing photographs.
