Magnolia champaca seed
LATIN NAME: MAGNOLIA CHAMPACA
COMMON NAME: White Champaca
The white champaca incenses the evergreen tree with the glossy, pointed, oval leaves and the small, creamy-white, deeply fragrant flowers that open through the warm season, the flowers incensing the air for many metres around, the clustered fruits with the bright-red seeds following. The tree grows steadily into the neat, upright crown, and it likes the sun or the light shade, and the deep, moist, well-drained soil.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The intense flower fragrance of the white champaca gives it a recognised place in the research on the warm-climate fragrant trees of the magnolia group, and the champaca species appears in the studies of the flower oil chemistry and the perfumery value. The work looks at the way the scent carries through the air, the red-seeded fruits, and the seed biology. The perfumers value the heady oil, and the growers of the warm-climate ornamental trees keep the species in their catalogues.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
In the warm, sheltered garden, the white champaca incenses the warm garden with the creamy flowers. The blooms serve the perfumes, the oils and the temple offerings for the ages, the scent drifts through the warm evenings, and the tree makes the fine specimen. It thrives in the deep, moist, well-drained, sunny or lightly shaded ground. Fragrant, creamy-white and elegant.
To grow the White Champaca from seed, sow the fresh seeds into the leafy, moist mix of the pot, then cover them lightly, keep the mix in the warm, bright spot and mist lightly, and the seedlings wake within a few weeks.
Keep the mix in the warm, bright spot and mist lightly, and pot the seedlings on as they grow. The incense blooms come within a season or two. Keep the young trees in the sheltered, deep ground, and the incense blooms will scent within a season or two.
Michelia champaca
The flowers from this tree are used to make the world's most expensive perfume 'Joy'. The extremely aromatic orange blooms appear nearly all year round. Grows to the size of a large shrub or small tree, 15-20' in height. It is a tropical tree, however established plants can tolerate light freeze.
Michelia flowers produce in great quantities. On a warm humid night, the scents can easily be enjoyed several hundred feet away. If you drive near by, you will notice the scent immediately.
These are flowers you don't have to "stick your nose in" as the scent exudes from the tree. However, you really can't STOP sticking your nose into a flower over and over again.
Also you could take the flower, home made natural perfume, into car, office, rest room, and anywhere you want fragrant atmosphere.
