LAURACEAE

 

Mostly every green trees, or shrubs, bark and foliage usually aromatic; leaves usually alternate, simple usually punctuate and coriaceaous, estipulate; Flowers in axillary panicles, spikes, racemes or umbels; generally bisexual, mostly 3-merous, small, greenish yellowish or white, the perianth deciduous or persistent, androecium typically of 4 whorls of 3 stamens each, anthers basifixed, 2 celled, style 1, stigma1, fruit drupe or berry usually surrounded at base by enlarged and often persistent perianth tube seated on an enlarged receptacle or pedicel, seed with large straight embryo, endosperm absent.