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Cananga odorata
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Family:
ANNONACEAE
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Citation: Cananga odorata (Lam.) Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. 130. 1855 & Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 1: 56. 1872; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 27. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 65. 1984; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 58. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 6. 1990; Debika Mitra in B. D. Sharma et al., Fl. India 1: 254. 1993; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 45. 1994; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 34. 1996; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 49. 2005; M. Mohanan in P. Daniel, Fl. Kerala 1: 140. 2005; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 75. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 103. 2009.
Uvaria odorata Lam., Encycl. Meth. Bot. 1:595.1785.
Canangium odoratum (Lam.) Baill. ex King, J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 61: 41. 1892.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Kattuchempakam, Kanangamaram, Langilangi, Madana, Pachachempakam
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Langilangi, Maramar, Perfume Tree, Ylang ylang
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Description:
Trees, 15-20 m tall; bole straight, bark greyish-white, blaze creamy yellow, branches spreading, minutely puberulous with greyish, crispate, mostly fascicled hairs when young, glabrate with age. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, estipulate; petiole 10-20 mm long, slender, grooved above, minutely puberulous; lamina 9-21 x 4-9 cm, oblong, elliptic, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate; base obtuse or oblique; apex acuminate or acute; margin entire, undulate, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8-11 pairs, pinnate, prominent; intercostae scalariform, obscure. Flowers bisexual, yellowish-green, fragrant, to 6 cm across, several in peduncled, axillary cymes; bracts subulate, 1-2 mm long, puberulous on both sides, cauducous; pedicel 2-5 cm long, slender; sepals 3, 4-6 mm long, ovate, pubescent, reflexed, shortly connate at base; petals 6 (3 + 3), 3.5-5 x 0.5-1.5 cm, green, turning yellow, linear or lanceolate, valvate, puberulous; inner ones smaller, subequal; torus some what convex; stamens many, closely arranged, to 3.5 mm, connectives broadly appendaged, acute, concealing anthers; carpels many, glabrous at the very base, ovules many attached to the suture, stylules slender, terminated by a club-shaped stigma. Fruit aggregate of berry, 3-15 in a cluster, 1-15 x 0.5-1 cm, globose, glabrous, pulpy, black; seeds 2-12, transversely compressed, yellowish-brown.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
December-May
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as ornamental plant
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Distribution:
Myanmar to Australia and New Zealand, through Malesia
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Peechi, Trivandrum, Aroor
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