Taxon:
Cananga odorata (Lam.) Hook. f. & Thomson
Summary
Place of publication:
Fl. ind. 1(2):130. 1855
Verified:
11/18/1992
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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- Permanent Agriculture Resources (PAR), Holualoa, Hawai'i
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Common names
English
Macassar oiltree – perfumetree – woolly-pine – ylang-ylang-tree – Chinese
yi lan (依兰) – Filipino
ylang-ylang – French
canang odorant – ilang-ilang – German
Ylang-Ylangbaum – Portuguese
cananga – Spanish
cadmia – cananga – ilang-ilang – Swedish
ilang-ilang –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Cambodia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Laos | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Myanmar | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Thailand | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Vietnam | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Philippines | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Tropical | Papuasia | Papua New Guinea | | |
1 | Native | Australasia | Australia | Australia | Queensland | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | also cult. in tropics |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Fujian Sheng | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guangdong Sheng | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Hainan Sheng | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Sichuan Sheng | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | Yunnan Sheng | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Taiwan | | |
4 | Naturalized | | | | | natzd. elsewhere in tropics |
Native
Asia-Tropical
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PAPUASIA:
Papua New Guinea
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INDO-CHINA:
Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
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MALESIA:
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines
Australasia
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AUSTRALIA:
Australia [Queensland]
Cultivated
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China [Fujian Sheng, Guangdong Sheng, Sichuan Sheng, Yunnan Sheng, Guangxi Zhuangzu Zizhiqu, Hainan Sheng]
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EASTERN ASIA:
Taiwan
Naturalized
(natzd. elsewhere in tropics)
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | ornamental | | Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. |
Environmental | ornamental | | Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 19:25, 70-74. URL: http://proseanet.org |
Food additives | flavoring | | Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2 |
Materials | essential oils | | Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster. 1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2 |
Materials | essential oils | | Pajaujis Anonis, D. 1993. Flower oils and floral compounds in perfumery. |
Materials | wood | timber | Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature |
Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |