Description: This plant is wide spread in Portugal. Its leaves are used dried or green in the gastronomy as well as in the traditional medicine in Cape Verde, Portugal and India (Hindu origin). According to Manuel Vaz, the laurel cultivated in the Quinta da Vitoria was so big that it provided leaves for the entire neighborhood. (*)
Provided by: Manuel Vaz, a Cape Verde- born Portuguese.
Present Location: Vitoria Garden Collection (the original tree remains in the Quinta da Vitoria neighborhood. It was replaced by a similar tree, which was transplanted in October 2014)
Last revision date: March 2016
(I) Numbering in accordance with the archive of trees and plants identified in the Quinta da Vitoria 2012 and 2013.
(II) Mabberley, David J. Mabberley´s Plant-Book: A Portable Dictionary of Plants, their Classifications and Uses. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
(*)Testimonies of residents gathered in a set of recorded conversations in the neighborhood of Quinta da Vitória and later to your demolition, recorded in Lisbon, Loures and London between July 2012 and October 2014
