Artabotrys hexapetalus, the climbing ylang-ylang, is a shrub found in India through to Burma, southern China and Taiwan,[1] having flowers that are renowned for their exotic fragrance.

[2] It is also called ylang-ylang vine or tail grape in English, with a variety of names in other languages.

[2] When young it is a shrub that turns into a climber once it attains the height of about 2 meters.

[1] It is a large woody climber or half-scandent shrub and originated in South China, Burma (Myanmar), the Philippines and India.

Its flowers are axillary, solitary, or in clusters of two or three, greenish yellow in color when ripe and give a strong smell resembling that of ripened jackfruit.