Cananga brandisiana — a medium houseplant
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Cananga brandisiana

Cananga Brandisiana

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Cananga brandisiana is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam. Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre, the French botanist who first formally described the species, using the basionym Unona brandisiana, named it in honor of Sir Dietrich Brandis, the German botanist for whom Pierre worked in the Indian Forest Service in Calcutta.

CHARACTERISTICS

Botanical profile.

Genus
Cananga
Family
Annonaceae
PLATES
Cananga brandisiana leaf
PLATE 01 · leaf
Cananga brandisiana leaf
PLATE 02 · leaf
Cananga brandisiana bark
PLATE 03 · bark
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