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Artabotrys hexapetalus
Also called Climbing Ylang Ylang, Climbing Yiang Yiang, Fragrant Tail Grape, Green Champa, Hexapetalous Tailgrape, Sixpetal Eagleclaw, Sixpetal Tailgrape
Artabotrys hexapetalus, the climbing ylang-ylang, is a shrub found in India through to Burma, southern China and Taiwan, having flowers that are renowned for their exotic fragrance. It is also called ylang-ylang vine or tail grape in English, with a variety of names in other languages. The yellow colored flowers of this plant are very fragrant. The flowers are greenish in the beginning and turn yellow with age. They are long lasting with a fruity pleasant smell. When young it is a shrub that turns into a climber once it attains the height of about 2 meters.
It is a large woody climber or half-scandent shrub and originated in South China, Burma (Myanmar), the Philippines and India. Its flowers are axillary, solitary, or in clusters of two or three, greenish yellow in color when ripe and give a strong smell resembling that of ripened jackfruit.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Artabotrys hexapetalus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
