Most of us are familiar with the taste of cinnamon, whether from eating a spiced apple pie or drinking a festive latte. It's often sold ground up into a powder, but you can buy cinnamon sticks, too. Either way, it's made of the dried bark of cinnamon plants, or Cinnamomum spp. – a group of shrubs and trees hailing from tropical climes.
While these plants tend to be relatively slow-growing, it can be fun to grow them at home and harvest your own supply of the spice. As a bonus, cinnamon plants also produce small flowers, and the leaves are evergreen.
