How to identify Kapur
Identify Kapur by combining habit, leaf characters, flower or fruit details, location, and its family pattern. Do not rely on one feature alone.
- Check the distinctive field mark: Wood and leaves yield camphor when distilled.
- Confirm leaf surface: Glabrous (smooth, hairless).
- Confirm fruit type: Berry.
- In India, compare location records such as Uttarakhand.
- Confirm it sits within the Lauraceae family pattern, then compare close relatives before deciding it is Kapur.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Camphora officinarum
- Genus
- Camphora
- Family
- Lauraceae
- Found in India
- Uttarakhand
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Leaf characters
- Leaf surface
- Glabrous (smooth, hairless)recorded
Typical of the family
- Arrangement
- Alternate
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kapur itself; the rest are typical of the Lauraceae family.
Flower & fruit characters
- Fruit type
- BerryrecordedA fleshy fruit with seeds embedded directly in the pulp, no central stone.“It produces clusters of black, berry-like fruit around 1 cm (3⁄8 in) in diameter.” — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Typical of the family
- Flower symmetry
- Actinomorphic (radially symmetrical)
- Inflorescence
- Panicle
- Fruit
- Drupe
Characters marked “recorded” are for Kapur itself; the rest are typical of the Lauraceae family — flowering plants only.
Local Names
- Bengali
- Karpur
- Hindi
- कपूर Kapur
- Kannada
- ಚಂದ್ರ Chandra, Davala, ಧವಳ Dhavala, ಕಪ್ಪರ Kappara, ಕಪ್ಪುರ Kappura
- Malayalam
- Chutakkarpuram, Ghanarasam, Himamsu, Himavaluka
- Manipuri
- ꯀꯔꯄꯨꯔꯥ Karpura
- Marathi
- कापूर Kapoor
- Nepali
- कपुर Kapur
- Odia
- ramokorpuro
- Sanskrit
- Chandraprabha, Chandrahba, Gandhadravya
- Tamil
- Chukantamaram
- Telugu
- Chandramu, Chandrasanguyamu
- Urdu
- Kafoor
About Kapur
Camphor (Camphora officinarum) belongs to the Lauraceae family. In India it has been recorded in Uttarakhand.
Uses
It is grown for parts that are eaten, long used in traditional medicine and cut for timber and furniture. Those medicinal uses are traditional attributions, not medical advice.
In culture
It is treated as sacred and appears in worship.
Lauraceae
Laurel/Cinnamon family
Kapur belongs to the Lauraceae family.
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