The Nature LibraryEN·ES
iNat·54759SpeciesPlantae20,576 field observations
  1. Plants
  2. ›Vascular Plants
  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
  5. ›laurels, spicebushes, and allies
  6. ›laurels
  7. ›Laurus
Bay laurel
Plate 1 of 9. (c) Sarah Gregg, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA) · via iNaturalist

Bay laurel

Laurus nobilis

Laurus nobilis is an aromatic evergreen tree or large shrub with green, glabrous leaves, in the flowering plant family Lauraceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region and is used as bay leaf for seasoning in cooking. Its common names include bay laurel, sweet bay, bay (esp. United Kingdom),:84 true laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel tree or simply laurel. Laurus nobilis figures prominently in classical Greek, Roman, and Biblical culture.

Continue reading on Wikipedia
§·

Where it lives

Recorded sightings

—

geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.

Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.

§·

In the old herbals & bestiaries

Bay laurel in The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs

The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs

1532 · p.189

Bay laurel in Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides

Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides

Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.328

Bay laurel in Six Groups of the History of Plants

Six Groups of the History of Plants

Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.858

§·

In the stacks

Searching the stacks…

Every page naming Laurus nobilis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →

This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 54759.