A great tree for landscape or street tree. Eye catching, bright red, exploding fireworks of puffy-like flowers grace this beautiful shrub from Bolivia. Foliage is feathery with an upright growing habit. Grows 2 to 4'. Temperature 35 degrees and up.
Foliage is glossy green.
The ylang-ylang is cultivated in the Comoros Islands, Asia and Hawaii for the perfume industry. The intense fragrant and ivory-colored , waxen quality of petals indicate their relationship of Michelia to Magnolias. Grows upright to 20', it's pointed wavy edged leaves are glossy, leathery and light green. Closely related and similar in appearance and growing habit to the white champaca except that the flowers are creamy orange and same intoxicating fragrance. Known as the banana shrub, for it's delightfully sweet, banana-like floral fragrance .