Canellaceae: The Canellaceae family gathers angiosperm plants with very conserved characters.
Etymology: The name comes from the genus Canella (vernacular name: Cannellier).
It was an important medicinal plant of the natives of the American tropics which was adopted as such by the Europeans. It was during Christopher Columbus' second voyage that his companion, Dr. Diego Álvarez Chanca described this cinnamon (Lauraceae family) which did not resemble any of ...
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