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  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
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  6. ›custard-apples
  7. ›Annonoideae
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  9. ›Desmos
Chinese eagle claw
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Chinese eagle claw

Desmos chinensis

Desmos chinensis is a flowering plant of the custard-apple family, Annonaceae. The yellowish-green flowers are similar to the Ylang-ylang flowers, therefore this plant is sometimes known as dwarf ylang-ylang. Their smell, however, is much less strong and is only felt in the morning. By midday it has mostly faded away.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 430936.