Artabotrys hexapetalus (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Artabotrys hexapetalus (L.f.) Bhandari

Protologue: Baileya 12(4): 149 (1965).

• Annona hexapetala L.f. (1781),
• Artabotrys odoratissimus R.Br. ex Ker Gawl. (1820),
• Artabotrys uncinatus (Lamk) Merr. (1912).

• Climbing ylang-ylang (En)
• Malaysia: kenanga china, kenanga bolok
• Thailand: kradangngaa cheen (central), sabanngaa cheen (northern)
• Vietnam: dây công chúa, hoa móng rồng.

Indigenous in southern India and Sri Lanka, introduced throughout the Old World tropics. Commonly cultivated in southern China, Indo-China, the Philippines and also in Java.

In the Philippines, a decoction of the leaves is used against cholera. The flowers are used to prepare a stimulating tea-like beverage. They also yield an essential oil, used in perfumery. A. hexapetalus is commonly cultivated in gardens for its very fragrant flowers, also used for screen-planting in large gardens.

• A climber or scandent shrub up to 8 m tall; young twigs densely appressed brown hairy, old twigs with many obtuse thorny branches (hooked peduncles) 1.5-6 cm long.
• Leaves 5-25 cm × 2.5-8 cm, base cuneate, apex acute, short-acuminate, petiole 0.4-0.8 cm long.
• Flower solitary or in pairs on a straight peduncle, later thickening and recurved, sepals ovate-triangular, about 5 mm long, pubescent outside, outer petals 3.7-4.5 cm × 0.9-1.6 cm, inner petals 3.2-4.2 cm × 0.9-1.2 cm, green turning bright yellow, carpels 20-30.
• Monocarp, obovoid, mucronate, 3.5-5 cm long, juicy, very fragrant, yellow.

In South-East Asia in cultivation only.

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