Cinnamon Tree in HPP

[Carey]

Cinnamon trees grow nicely in lower Puna, Have a friend with a full sun one in upper HPP & we had a full sun one that was taking off, but then got ringed by the weedwhacker.... woulda been good if we had noticed it early, as you are supposed to coppice the plant to harvest the cinnamon stems, but we did not noticed it until it was too late....

There 2 main types you may encounter & the harvesting is slightly different in each. The finer plant is the Cinnamomum zeylonicum and Cassia cinnamon that produces a thicker, tougher inner bark. Ours was from PantIt Hawaii, and looking at the plant photos, may have been the Cassia cinnamon.

Anyhoo, un-coppiced they can grow over 65' in height.... but for harvesting the cinnamon bark a two year old plant is cut all the way back, then harvested every 2 -3 years by cutting all the way back.

Production link:
http://www.appropedia.org/Cinnamon_Proce...cal_Brief)

(ETA For some reason the whole link is not hypertexting, so just copy & paste it...sorry!)

YouTube link of zeylonicum (Ceylon) production:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbZfc0lJ1q4

and why it might not be terrible that it got 'whacked' as I am not sure if it was a cassia;
http://www.state.hi.us/dlnr/dofaw/hortwe...cinbur.htm