Magnolia champaca
Champaca (Magnolia champaca )
Magnolia champaca, rarely Joy perfume tree and called in the home areas also Champaca, Champak, Huang Yu Lan or Safa, a species is in the genus Magnolia (Magnolia ) in the family Magnoliaceae ( Magnoliaceae ). The Southeast Asian type is known, among other things due to the use of their floral scent of the perfume aroma "Joy".
Description
Habitus and sheets
Magnolia champaca usually grows as an evergreen medium to large tree with plant height 9-24 meters, in culture for reasons of space, sometimes a shrub. The bark is dark gray. The bark of young branches is hairy rust-colored woolly. The simple, leathery leaves are with a length of 13 to 25 cm, and a width from 4.5 to 8.5 cm lanceolate to ovate - lanceolate. Both leaf surfaces are rust-colored hairs, more than to the leaf veins bare. The stipules are hairy intense rust-colored fluffy.
Flowers
The flowers appear singly in the leaf axils. The early falling bracts are rust - haired or golden. The flower stalk is 3-5 mm long. The fragrant hermaphrodite flowers have a diameter of 5-7 cm. There are 12 to 15, rarely up to 20 almost equal multiform bloom present; they are 2 to 3.5 cm long, 0.3 to l, 2 cm wide and pale yellow to orange. The many stamens have a length of 5 to 7 mm with l, 5-2 mm long stamens. The many free, unilocular carpels have a length of 4 mm and contain two to several ovules.
Fruit and seeds
On a 5 to 10 cm long inflorescence axis many follicles are located. The brown follicles are almost as wide as long, sparsely hairy with l to 2 cm and covered with warty outgrowths. Öffenen it from top to bottom on one or both sides, and sometimes contain one or two or a few seeds. Brown, shiny seeds have a length of 5 to 12 mm and are generally rounded on the back.
Use
The scent of the flowers is as seductive as a fine perfume, and for that the flavors are also extracted and used. Champaka is for use for the production of "Joy", the most expensive perfume aroma of the world.
Champaca is an important flower which is used in almost all Southeast Asian countries such as Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and India for Ayurveda, ceremonies and massages and there is usually cultivated near the temples. In Bali you put the flower in water. The fragrant water is then sprinkled ritual for the blessing of the house and when they pray. The flowers are also traditionally worn in the hair and are part of ceremonial dance headpiece. The fragrance can be perceived hundreds of meters; a single flower is enough as a fragrance dispenser for a room or a car.
The ingredients have non-oily consistency and are recovered by distillation, and extraction by means of solution. Use for perfume oil, aromatherapy, cosmetics, fragrances, soaps, flavors in the food industry, alternative medicine use in gastritis, strengthening the ligaments and muscles, chronic arthritis, colic, diuretic, has a reputation as an effective aphrodisiac. According to some manufacturers of incense sticks a part of Nag Champa. The most famous manufacturers is Agarbatti.
Ayurvedic assignment: the throat chakra ( Vishuddha ), "purity", cleaning mixture, element ether. Recommended for breathing difficulties and obstructions. Flower Michelia champaka and plant Ocimum sanctum. A decoction of the bark is used in the East antipyretic.
Hindu Meaning: God Vishnu.
Champaka is one of the Asia, Oceania and Australian export timber. The wood is soft and breaks easily.
Dissemination
Magnolia champaca is native to India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam, southern China, Malaysia and Indonesia.
System
Magnolia champaca Michelia belongs to the section in the genus Magnolia (Magnolia ).
Swell
- Yuhu Liu, Nianhe Xia, Liu Yuhu & Hans P. Nooteboom: Magnoliaceae in the Flora of China, Volume 7, 2008, p 79: Michelia champaca - Online. ( Description section )
- SK Khanuada & SA Khan: Magnoliaceae in the Flora of Pakistan: Michelia champaca - Online. ( Description section )