Is the home-grown camphor tree a national protected plant?

Cinnamomum camphora is a national protected plant.

Cinnamomum camphora is a national second-class protected plant. 1999 was approved by the State Council and jointly released by the State Forestry Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture. Among them, 5 1 species is included in the first-class protection. There are 203 kinds of secondary protection. Included in the first batch of second-class protected wild plants, including camphor tree.

Cinnamomum camphora, an evergreen tree of Lauraceae, is about 10 m -55 m high, 3 m in diameter, and has an oval crown. With broad crown, dense branches and leaves, magnificent momentum and evergreen seasons, it is an excellent greening tree, street tree and courtyard shade tree in southern cities of China.

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Cinnamomum camphora is mainly distributed in the south of the Yangtze River valley in China, with Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Taiwan Province, Guangdong, Fujian, Hunan and other southern regions being the most abundant. Most of them are born in sunny slopes, hills and valleys of low mountains, and their vertical distribution is mostly below 500~600m above sea level. There are natural camphor trees in the mountainous areas in the north-central part of Taiwan Province Province at an altitude of 1800 meters. It grows most vigorously below 1500m and is an important tree species in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forest in China.

Cinnamomum camphora likes light, seedlings and young trees are shade-tolerant and like warm and humid climate. They are not cold-tolerant, they are afraid of cold. The lowest temperature in winter can't be lower than 0 degrees, which will cause frostbite. If it is lower than 5-8 degrees below zero, it will cause frostbite and death.

Cinnamomum camphora grows well in deep, fertile and moist acidic or neutral yellow soil and red soil, and is not tolerant to drought, barren and saline-alkali, with strong germination and pruning resistance. Strong resistance to sulfur dioxide, ozone and smoke pollution, and can absorb a variety of toxic gases.