• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

CooksInfo

  • Home
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Recipes
  • Food Calendar
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar
×
Home » Herbs » Folium Indicum

Folium Indicum

Folium Indicum is a leaf from a close relative of the same tree that gives us cinnamon bark.

Its taste is reminscent of cloves and mint; the fragrance is somewhat like pepper. It is used in Indian cooking, as Europeans would use bay leaves.

It is used dried and ground in garam masala; it is not really used dried and ground for many other other purposes.

The tree grows in northern India, Bangladesh, Burma (aka Myanmar), and Nepal. It can be propagated from seed.

It is a tropical evergreen growing up to up to 25 feet (7 ½ metres) tall, with a trunk up to 3 feet (1 metre) wide. It has rough, greyish and reddish-brown bark, with glossy leaves.

A tree’s leaves starts being harvested when the tree is around 10 years old, and are gathered October through to March. The leaves are then sun-dried.

Folium Indicum is also pressed for its oil for use in perfumes.

History Notes

The Romans used Folium Indicum for cooking and for perfumes.

The leaves were used in Europe up until the Middle Ages, then fell out of fashion.

Other names

AKA: Indian Cassia Leaves, Malabathron Leaf, Tejpat Leaves
Scientific Name: Cinnamomum tamala
Latin: Folia, Folium indicum, Malabathrum, Malobathrum
French: Laurier des Indes
German: Indisches Lorbeerblatt
Indian: Tejpat
Japanese: Tamara-nikkei, Tezipatto

This page first published: Aug 15, 2004 · Updated: Jun 14, 2018.

This web site generates income from affiliated links and ads at no cost to you to fund continued research · Information on this site is Copyright © 2023· Feel free to cite correctly, but copying whole pages for your website is content theft and will be DCMA'd.

Tagged With: Indian Food, Roman Food

Primary Sidebar

Search

    Today is

  • Cheese Day
    Cheese shop
  • Shavuot
    Shavuot holiday, c. 1951

Hi, I'm Skylar! This is a fake profile talking about how I switched to a paleo diet and it helped my eczema and I grew 4". Trust me, I'm an online doctor.

More about me →

Popular

  • E.D. Smith Pumpkin Purée
    E.D. Smith recipe for pumpkin pie
  • Libby's Pumpkin Pie
    Libby’s recipe for pumpkin pie
  • Pie crust
    Pie Crust Recipe
  • Smokey Maple Pepper Glaze for Ham
    Smokey Maple Pepper Glaze for Ham

You can duplicate your homepage's trending recipes section in the sidebar to reinforce the internal linking.

We no longer recommend using a search bar, newsletter form or category drop-down menu in the sidebar. See the Modern Sidebar post for details.

If the block editor is not narrower than usual, simply save the page and refresh it.

Footer

↑ back to top

About

  • About this site
  • Privacy Policy
  • Copyright enforced!
  • Terms & Conditions

Newsletter

  • Sign Up! for emails and updates

Site

  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar

This web site generates income from affiliated links and ads at no cost to you to fund continued research · The text on this site is © Copyright.