Cananga ( Latin Cananga ) is a monotypic genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants , part of the Annonaceae family.
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Cananga odorata ( Lam. ) Hook.f. & Thomson - Kananga Scented | |||||||||||||||||||
The only species is Scented Kananga , or Ylang-ylang ( Cananga odorata ( Lam. ) Hook.f. & Thomson ).
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Title
Ylang-ylang translated from the Philippine - "flutter" [2] . It is believed that the name comes from the Tagalog language .
Distribution
The natural range is Burma , Philippines , Indonesia ( Kalimantan , Java ). Cultivated throughout the Asian tropics [2] .
The plant is present on the national flag of the Northern Mariana Islands , as well as the coat of arms of Mayotte .
Botanical Description
An evergreen tree 10–40 m high, in culture after pruning with a decrease in height - up to 3 m. The trunk is up to 75 cm in diameter, without the board-like roots found in some other annonas [2] . The bark is light gray or silver, smooth.
The leaves are alternate, bilinear, simple, oval-oblong, without stipules, 13–49 by 4–10 cm in size. Petioles are short, up to 2 cm long. The venation is pinnate; the leaf has 8–9 pairs of secondary veins distinctly visible on both sides.
An inflorescence is a brush, flowers 5 to 7.5 cm long, bisexual, green-yellow, on a peduncle 2-5 cm long, with 3 sepals and 6 petals, which have a purplish-brown spot on the inside of the base.
Stamens are numerous, closely crowded, 2-3 mm long, with a wide cone-shaped adductor. Carpels are also numerous. The fruit is a juicy many-leafed fruit , consisting of 7-16 fruitlets about 3 cm long on legs up to 2 cm long. The fruitlets are dark green, ripe are blackish, with 2-12 light brown seeds 0.9 cm long in yellow flesh, which have rudimentary arillus [3] .
From left to right: General view of the plant, leaves, flower, fruit with fruits. | ||||||||||
Application
The deep and rich smell of ylang-ylang flowers resembles jasmine and neroli . Essential (ylang-ylang) oil from flowers is obtained by steam distillation . Ylang-ylang is used in perfumery ("oriental" and "floral" compositions), in aromatherapy , as well as in cosmetics, sometimes it is used in flavoring foods, sweet creams . It is believed that the aroma of ylang-ylang has a calming effect, normalizes high blood pressure, helps with skin problems, and is also considered an aphrodisiac . In Indonesia, not a single wedding ceremony or religious ceremony is complete without ylang-ylang flowers.
Ylang-ylang essential oil accounts for up to 29% of Comoros' exports (1998) in value terms.
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of indicating the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Imkhanitskaya N. N. The Annonaceae family // Plant Life / Ed. Takhtadzhyana A.L. - M .: Education , 1980. - V. 5, Part 1. Flowering plants. - S. 132-139. - 430 s.
- ↑ PROSEA 19: Essential-oil plants / Ed. LPA Oyen, Nguyen Xuan Dung. - Yayasan Obor Indonesia, 1999.