Gardenia jasminoides
Cape jasmine, Cape jessamine, Common Gardenia, Gardenia, Cape-jessamine, Gargenia, Cape-jasmine, Danh-danh, Jasmin, Fortune's Gardenia, Jempiring
Description
An evergreen perennial shrub with a dense canopy dotted with numerous elegant flowers, either single or double, often intensely fragrant and cream-white in colour. It is sensitive to severe cold and sudden changes in temperature. There are varieties suitable for growing in pots and others for use in gardens in warm temperate climates, depending on the ideal conditions for growth and development. It requires acidic soil or growing medium and partial shade.
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Magnoliophyta
- Class
- Angiospermae
- Order
- Gentianales
- Family
- Rubiaceae
- Genus
- Gardenia
- Species
- Gardenia jasminoides
Synonyms (11)
- Gardenia angustifolia
- Gardenia fortunei
- Gardenia grandiflora
- Gardenia longisepala
- Gardenia maruba
- Gardenia pictorum
- Gardenia radicans
- Genipa grandiflora
- Genipa radicans
- Jasminum capense
- Mussaenda chinensis
