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A Detailed Guide to Ylang-Ylang Planting Methods and Key Technical Points

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Ylang-ylang, also known as the perfume tree, is a tropical woody aromatic plant. It grows 10-20 m tall, flowers from May to November, and its fruit ripens from December to March. The flowers are relatively large, up to 8 cm long, and a single plant typically produces 5-10 kg of flowers.

Morphological Characteristics


Ylang-ylang belongs to the Annonaceae family and is a large evergreen tree. Flowers are picked on clear mornings, and yellow-green flowers are the highest quality. It has a very strong fragrance.
Ylang-ylang is a large evergreen tree, reaching over 20 m tall. The branches droop slightly. The leaves are oblong-ovate, with pointed tips, rounded bases, and slightly wavy margins, and the leaf stalks are short. The flowers are axillary, borne singly or in clusters, shaped like eagle claws, drooping, and fragrant; they are green when first open and later turn yellow. They can open throughout the year, with the peak flowering period from May to August. The fruit is a purple-black berry, ovate or long ovate, containing 3-12 brown, flat-round seeds, and ripens from December to March of the following year.

Ylang-Ylang Benefits


Ylang-ylang is mainly used by steam-distilling fresh petals to make ylang-ylang oil. The oil yield from fresh flowers reaches 2-3%, and it has a unique, rich, fragrant aroma. It is a precious raw material for the fragrance industry and is widely used in perfumes, soaps, and cosmetics. The "ylang-ylang" fragrance extracted from it is one of the world's most precious natural high-grade fragrances and high-grade fixatives, so people call it the "world champion of fragrant flowers" and the "natural perfume tree". The discovery of ylang-ylang attracted the attention of fragrance manufacturers, and it was subsequently promoted and planted on a large scale, with a ylang-ylang base established in Xishuangbanna. At present, cosmetics and cleaning products made from ylang-ylang keep appearing on the market, and they sell very well, with demand exceeding supply.


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