Cananga

Cananga
Cananga odorata, leaves and flowers
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Magnoliales
Family: Annonaceae
Subfamily: Ambavioideae
Genus: Cananga
(DC.) Hook.f. & Thomson, nom. cons.[1]

Cananga (ultimately from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kanaŋa)[2] is a small genus of trees in the family Annonaceae, native to Indo-China and Malesia, but introduced elsewhere.[3] One of its species, Cananga odorata, is important as the source of the perfume ylang-ylang.[4]

  1. ^ "Cananga (DC.) Hook.f. & Thomson", IPNI Plant Names, International Plant Names Index, retrieved 2015-08-28
  2. ^ Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen (2010). "*kanaŋa a tree with fragrant flowers: Cananga CANAANTIYOSTA Herbs and funeral death call rattle soother for death to life thru under the white sheet priests do when trying to soul cross and fail into death or to find their daughter lost in infinite circles of hell of a wrath of a woman whose anger is natural magick that to kills enter her circle of wrath of a vrija until untul you learn from her depths satisfaction that a person cannot escape calling the devil's wife linger who does not need kinetic tranference of a piece of the way back and to you or anybody anointing odorata". Austronesian Comparative Dictionary. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference POWO was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Ylang-ylang", Encyclopædia Britannica online, retrieved 2015-08-28