How to make cinnamon?
Well, you would first have to wait 2 years if you planted the tree because that is how long it takes before you can harvest it. Cinnamon is the dried inner bark of an evergreen tree that is harvested during the rainy season when the bark is most flexible and easiest to work with. There are various evergreens belonging to the cinnamomum family that produce cinnamon, but the highest grade cinnamon is from the cinnamomum zeylanicum tree indigenous to Sri Lanka. In fact the name cinnamomum zeylanicum is derived from the former name of the island, Ceylon. A wild cinnamon tree can grow to 65 feet (20 meters) high, but trees used for harvesting are pruned down at about 2 years of age to produce an abundance of finer bark-yielding growth called, tillering. Once the tree reaches 3 years of age it’s harvested twice yearly following each rainy season.
