YLANG-YLANG TROPICAL TREE, GRACEFUL FLOWERS WITH AN ENCHANTING FRAGRANCE Le Quotidien du Jardin N...

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NewsJardinTV, the channel that shares its passion for plants, gardens, botany, nature and gardening, offers you issue 472 of its show “Le Quotidien du Jardin”, produced by Nicole and Patrick Mioulane
Fabiana2167 asks us the following question:
A plant has a name that makes me dream: ylang-ylang… I have never found it in nurseries, would you be able to introduce it to us one of these days…
Ylang-ylang is the common name for Cananga odorata (Annonaceae), a tree that lives in the tropical rainforests of Asia and Indonesia (which explains its absence in our European nurseries). It is cultivated for the production of perfume because ylang-ylang essential oil is one of the most used natural materials in the perfume industry, which is why the plant is called "Queen of Perfumes"
In addition to ylang-ylang, Canaga odorata is also called: Macassar oil tree, perfume tree, poor man's jasmine, queen of flowers. It is a fast-growing tree (2 to 5 m per year in the first years) that will measure 15 to 25 m high in nature.
The evergreen, alternate, compound leaves, 15 to 20 cm long are pinnate, with leathery, smooth and shiny leaflets, oval, pointed with wavy edges and well-marked veins.
Flowering occurs all year round. The often solitary flower is drooping, carried by a long peduncle and composed of six narrow, wavy petals, first greenish then yellow), which can be compared to a spider or a jellyfish.
The scent of ylang-ylang flowers is powerful, rich, exotic, spicy. It is floral (carnation, jasmine, narcissus, wallflower, tuberose) and slightly fruity with notes of neroli (essential oil of bitter orange) and a touch of camphor. Ylang-ylang gives off a creamy fragrance, sometimes described as carnal, heavy and sweet, methyl benzoate, giving it its characteristic odor
Ylang-ylang is cultivated throughout its region of origin, but also in Madagascar, Polynesia, the Comoros (which are called 'perfume islands') and Mayotte, whose coat of arms adopted in 1982, includes two ylang-ylang flowers on the central shield.
Cananga odorata should be planted in full sun in acidic soil. To keep the soil cool, tropical bindweed Hewittia malabarica is often planted at its base, which forms a regular carpet dotted with creamy yellow flowers.
Young trees are topped when they reach between 2 and 3 m in height, which generates numerous branches and gives the Cananga a naturally weeping shape that greatly facilitates the harvest of flowers. The latter are picked when they are very yellow and before 10 o'clock in the morning because the aromatic ethers are synthesized during the night and volatilize during the day. It takes about 50 kg of flower to obtain one liter of essential oil.
There is also a climbing ylang-ylang or false Ylang-ylang Artabotrys, hexapetalus, a vine from the same family that measures 8 to 10 m long. An evergreen plant, whose 2 to 3 cm flowers, initially greenish, then yellow, are also a source of perfume.
Perfumery is the main user of ylang-ylang essential oil, which blends well with most floral, fruity, woody or oriental scents. It is found dominant in various famous perfumes: Bois des Iles created in 1926 by Chanel; Joy ​​by Jean Patou in 1938; 24 Faubourg by Hermès in 1995; Organza in 1996 by Givenchy; L’Instant by Guerlain in 2003; Ange ou Démon by Givenchy in 2006; Gabrielle de Chanel in 2017 and Infusion Ylang de Prada in 2022
Ylang-ylang essential oil is used in aromatherapy as a sedative and dermatological antiseptic, but also to combat hair loss by regulating sebum secretion.
Ylang-ylang flowers produce an essential oil of great smoothness, said to have aphrodisiac properties. Ylang-ylang essential oil added to coconut oil makes a body lotion with a supposedly highly erotic effect.
But it is above all the bewitching scent of the flowers that is considered the sensual fragrance par excellence and in Indonesia, ylang-ylang flowers are spread on the bed of newlyweds.
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In issue 473 we will answer the following question:
Are all rhubarbs edible? I was told that there are some decorative species, could you present them in a future show please?

[@faouzyabenaissa6876]

il y en a des merveilles dans la nature!

[@جمالالعنزي-ك2ذ]

قناة جميله 🌺🌲🌳🌴

[@jean-christophecasset7902]

Merci pour votre continuité et l'intérêt régulier de vos vidéos. Petite rectificacion: en Andalousie, dans la vallée d'Almunecar (province de Grenade), des anonacées sont depuis longtemps cultivées et commercialisées sont le nom de chimiroyos en Espagne et Anone en France: fruit vert avec de légères écailles superficielles.

[@moniquerisso4741]

On trouve bcp d ylang ylang à la Réunion et surtout à Nosy Be, île de Madagascar... Planté s ici par un célèbre parfumeur français... Bonne journée

[@elisabethbled8780]

Une fleur tres modeste a disparu de nos jardin, Nous ne la trouvons plus, la VIOLETTE , pourriez nous en parlez, ces petits bouquets ravissaient le cœur de nos arrières grands mères... Merci

[@SureauDerable]

J'ai la chance d'avoir quelques pieds de violettes qui ont poussé dans le jardin, aller dans les bois pour essayer d'en trouver je pense, ou en bord de fossé humide j'en ai déjà vu