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Cananga

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Cananga (ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kanaŋa) is a small genus of only two species in the custard apple family Annonaceae, native to areas from Indo-China through Malesia to Australia. One of the species, Cananga odorata, is the source of the fragrant oil ylang-ylang.

Species

Ylang Ylang

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassMagnoliopsida
  4. OrderMagnoliales
  5. FamilyAnnonaceae
Native toBorneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Myanmar, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., Sulawesi
Observations2,596
Observations recorded5,408

General: : Cananga odorata (Lam.) Hook.f. & Thomson.

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
75
With media
59
Family
Annonaceae
Collections
USNM, BRIT, US, NY, A, MO
Recorded in
United States, Philippines, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Vietnam

Research

127 papers

via PubMed

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Encyclopedic overview

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Cananga (ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kanaŋa) is a small genus of only two species in the custard apple family Annonaceae, native to areas from Indo-China through Malesia to Australia. One of the species, Cananga odorata, is the source of the fragrant oil ylang-ylang.

==Species== Two species are recognized: Cananga brandisiana (Pierre) Saff., syn. Cananga latifolia (Hook.f. & Thomson) Finet & Gagnep. Cananga odorata (Lam.) Hook.f. & Thomson

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cananga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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