Kauaʻi record · kba_plant_cinnamomum_burmanni
Java Cinnamon
Cinnamomum burmanni
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About Java Cinnamon
Java Cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni) is an introduced tree treated as naturalized on Kauaʻi by Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist. Current extent is unassessed. A wet-tropical tree native from southern China through western and central Malesia. The Bishop Museum 2025 checklist records it as naturalized on Kauaʻi, and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist corroborates the island record. Checklist status does not establish abundance, forest occupancy, or ecological effects.
Kauaʻi evidence
Taxonomic identity, tree form, diagnostic morphology and island occurrence use the linked reviewed sources. Historical planting, cultivation, naturalization and invasive status are separate. Generated imagery is not occurrence evidence.
Names and classification
- Scientific name
- Cinnamomum burmanni
- Common names
- Java Cinnamon · Indonesian cinnamon · Korintje cinnamon
- Other names
- Cinnamomum burmanni · Java cinnamon · Indonesian cinnamon · Korintje cinnamon · Laurus burmanni · Cinnamomum chinense
- Record type
- Species
Kauaʻi occurrence and status
- Kauaʻi occurrence
- Recorded on Kauaʻi
- Origin
- Introduced
- Conservation status
- Not yet assessed
- Evidence date
- 2026-10-06
- Evidence limits
- Current island-wide abundance, occupied habitats, population trajectory, and ecological effects on Kauaʻi are not established by the reviewed checklist evidence.
Habitat and ecology
- Habitats
- Not yet assessed
- Food and resource needs
- Not yet assessed
- Reproduction
- Small flowers in panicles develop into single-seeded drupes held by the persistent cup-like perianth base. Reproduction requires flowering, successful pollen transfer, viable fruit and seed, dispersal, and suitable moist germination sites; no Kauaʻi-specific phenology or recruitment rate is available.
- Shelter
- Not yet assessed
- Growth form
- Tree
Threats and conservation
- Monitoring
- Not yet assessed
- Data gaps
- Current population extent and trajectory · Additional species-specific ecological and conservation sources
Process and seasonal context
- Seasonal timing
- Not yet assessed
- Seasonal description
- Java Cinnamon (Cinnamomum burmanni) is an introduced tree treated as naturalized on Kauaʻi by Bishop Museum’s 2025 checklist and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist. Current extent is unassessed. A wet-tropical tree native from southern China through western and central Malesia. The Bishop Museum 2025 checklist records it as naturalized on Kauaʻi, and the 2026 Smithsonian checklist corroborates the island record. Checklist status does not establish abundance, forest occupancy, or ecological effects.
Sources and further reading
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:463328-1
- https://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=242445060
- https://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/publications/pdf/tr75.pdf
- https://editedimages.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/Imadaetal.2025Hawaiianvascularplants.xlsx
- https://doi.org/10.5479/si.32124043