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Chinese White Olive
Canarium album
カンラン
An evergreen tall tree native to East and Southeast Asia. Its olive-like fruits are edible, known as 'ganlan' in Chinese. The aromatic resin has long been used in medicine and as incense.
Identification Points
- ✓Odd-pinnate compound leaves with ovate-elliptic leaflets
- ✓Fruits olive-shaped, ripening blue-green to yellow
- ✓Aromatic resin exudes when bark is wounded
Habitat
Tropical and warm mountain areas (in Japan: Okinawa, cultivated)
Season
May–June (flowers), September–November (fruit)
Morphological TraitsAI-estimated, needs verification
Growth form
Tree
Evergreen/Deciduous
Evergreen
Leaf type
Compound
Leaf shape
Round
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Venation
Pinnate
Flower symmetry
Actinomorphic
Ovary position
Superior
Aromatic
Aromatic
Phylogenetic Positionカンラン科 →
Phylogenetic Position
Angiosperms > Eudicots > Core eudicots > Sapindales > Burseraceae
Divergence Era
Late Cretaceous (ca. 90 million years ago)
Evolution Notes
Burseraceae belongs to Sapindales; the production of terpenoid aromatic resins evolved as a chemical defense against insects and herbivores.
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