<p>Trees can reach full production of essential oils when they are about 10 years old. Individual trees can produce about 120 kilos of flowers a year, yielding about 350g of essential oil. Madagascar, Comoros, and the Philippines are major producers and exporters of ylang-ylang oil.</p> <p><b>Keywords: </b></p><p>Essential oil, ornamental, wood, medicine, cultural/spiritual, Annonaceae.</p> 1585219334 Cananga odorata (Lam.) Hook. f. & Thomson <p><i>Cananga odorata</i> thrives in humid lowland forests at elevations below 1,200 m. It grows best in areas where annual daytime temperatures are within the range 20 - 30°c, but can tolerate 16 - 34°c. It prefers a mean annual rainfall in the range 1,500 - 2,000 mm and prefers a fertile, moist but well-drained soil in a sunny position.</p> <p>Tree, up to 15-20 m tall, with branches spreading horizontally.<b></b></p> tuoksuilangia <p>Native to Southeast Asia. Widely planted, and also naturalized, in many tropical and subtropical areas of the World. </p> ilang-ilang <p>The species is commonly cultivated in tropical regions for its use as an ornamental roadside or garden tree, in food flavouring, and for the essential oils which are extracted from its fully opened flowers. Ylang-ylang essential oil is one of the most extensively used natural materials in the perfume industry.<b> </b>The tree also yields inferior timber and fuelwood and is used in folk medicine. Flowers are used for as decorations in festivities and other celebrations Sotheast Asia.</p> <p>Trunk is to 40 cm dbh, bark smooth, gray. Leaf arrangement is alternate distichous, leaf blade is narrowly ovate to oblong-elliptic, 10-22 cm long, 2.5-9 cm wide, apex acute to short acuminate, base rounded or obtuse. Flowers are solitary or usually in loose, sometimes branched cymes of 4-20 flowers, fragrant when fresh, pedicels 30-40mm long; sepals 3, 5-6 mm long, 4-5 mm wide, ovate, apex acute; petals 6, 5-8cm long, 0.3-0.8 cm wide, yellowish green, linear-oblong, somewhat narrowed at base, apex acute, long tapering; stamens numerous, 2 mm long; gynoecium consists of numerous carpels borne on flat receptacle surface. Fruit 1.5-2 cm long,1.3-1.4 cm in diam., broadly ellipsoid to broadly obovoid, purple-black and juicy when ripe. Seeds 6-12, small, ovoid-discoid, pale brown.</p>