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| Cinnamon (powdered bark) (Cinnamomum aromaticum) Lauraceae. (Cassia Cinnamon)Rather short, thick walled bast cells sclerenchyma with cell walls unequally thickened parenchyma cells with compound starch granules; cells with numerous small prismatic crystals; large resin bearing cells; cells of outer bark suberized and with reddish brown contents. Cassia bark contains relatively more starch than do the other varieties of cinnamon barks and relatively less bast tissue. Source: Schneider, A. (1921) The Microanalysis of Powdered Vegetable Drugs, 2nd ed. [1] |  |  |  | 
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| Saigon Cinnamon (powdered bark) (Cinnamomum loureiroi), Lauraceae. (Vietnamese Cassia)Histology much like that of Cassia; bast cells somewhat larger. Starch and sclerenchyma cells much as in Cinnamon aromaticum. Numerous small epidermal cells with thickened walls. Resin cells and crystals as in the other cinnamons. Source: Schneider, A. (1921) The Microanalysis of Powdered Vegetable Drugs, 2nd ed. [2] |  |  |  | 
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| Ceylon Cinnamon (powdered bark) (Cinnamomum verum) B., Lauraceae. (Cinnamomum Zylanicum)Histology much like that of Cassia Cinnamon; bast cells are more abundant and the cells of the outer cork wanting; starch less abundant. It is possible to distinguish this cinnamon from the other two by the larger sclerenchyma cells and absence of outer cork and epidermal tissues. Source: Schneider, A. (1921) The Microanalysis of Powdered Vegetable Drugs, 2nd ed. [3] |  |  |  | 
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| Cinnamon spp. barkThe most distinctive tissue elements are the thick walled fiber as well as the large resin cells showing dark red contents.400X Acidified chloral Hydrate Soln. Source: Elan M. Sudberg Alkemists Labs. and Japanese Official Monographs part II; British Pharmacopoeia, 2003 [4] |  |  |  | 
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