Ilang-ilang – Cananga odorata

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.