Indian Bay Leaf

Cinnamomum tamala

Aka: tejpat, tezapatta, Malabar leaf, Indian bark, Indian cassia, or malabathrum
Family: Lauraceae

Tree

Dried Indian Bay Leaf

Other kinds of Bay Leaf

California bay leaf (Umbellularia californica, Lauraceae) have a stronger flavour thant the Mediterranean bay laurel.

Bay Laurel (Laurus Nobilis) the most common bay leaf in European Cuisine.

Indonesian bay leaf or Indonesian laurel, Daun Salam (Syzygium polyanthum, Myrtaceae)

West Indian bay leaf, the leaf of the West Indian bay tree (Pimenta racemosa, Myrtaceae) 

Indian Bay Leaf


The Lauraceae Family

a family of flowering plants
AKA: the laurels


Kingdom: Plantae   Clades: Tracheophytes, Angiosperms, Magnoliids   Order: Laurales