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The difference between cinnamon and Geranium

Walter White
2020-07-17 09:21:05
Leaves: the leaves of cinnamon are oblong or lanceolate, with hairs on the surface at the initial stage and then shed to glabrous, with hairs on the back. However, geranium is oval and oblong to oblong lanceolate with no hair on both sides. Flowers: osmanthus panicles axillary or on current year's branchlets, hairy. And Geranium are axillary, and hairless.

I. blade difference

Osmanthus leaves are opposite or alternate, oblong or lanceolate, about 5.5-11cm long and 1.5-3cm wide, with dark green and glossy surface, hairy at the early stage of leaf vein, nearly glabrous at the later stage, pink green and pubescent at the back.

Geranium is nearly opposite or in the upper part of the branch is alternate. It is oval and oblong, then oblong and lanceolate. It is about 7-10 cm long and 3-3.5 cm wide. It is green on the top, gray green on the bottom and hairless on both sides.

The difference between flowers

Osmanthus is a panicle growing under the current year's branchlets or axillary, with grayish yellow or yellowish pubescence, oblong lobes, oval ovary, and swollen stigma.

Geranium panicles are axillary, glabrous, with 3-5 flowers at the end of the pedicel as cymes. Perianth lobes are ovoid, ovary is ovoid, stigma discoid.

Cinnamomum japonicum

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