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Gardenia jasminoides
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Family:
RUBIACEAE
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Citation: Gardenia jasminoides Ellis, Phil. Trans. 51: 935. 1761; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 619(437). 1921; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 369. 2009.
Gardenia augusta (L.) Merr., Interpr. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. 485. 1917, nom. superfl.; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 145. 1982; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 204. 1989.
Varneria augusta L., Amoen. Acad. 4: 136. 1759.
Gardenia florida L., Sp. Pl. (ed.2) 305. 1762, nom. illeg.
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Malayalam Name(s):
Gandharajan
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Tamil name(s):
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English name(s):
Bush Gardenia, Bunga Cina, Cape jasmine
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Description:
Bushy shrubs. Leaves opposite or ternately whorled, 8-12 x 4-6 cm, obovate or nearly lanceolate, shining, dark green, glabrous except the shortly tufted grandular axils of nerves, apex acute, base tapering into a short petiole; stipules connate, spathaceous. Flowers solitary, often double, terminal at the forks of branches or becoming lateral by displacement on single shoot; peduncle short. Calyx 5-6, ending in subulate teeth. Corolla white, turning to yellow, fragrant, tube stout, ca 2-2.5 cm long, broader upward, lobes obovate or oblanceolate, 2.5-3.5 cm long, very often double. Stamens 5, adnate to the tube. Berry orange, ellipsoid.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
August-May
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown as garden plant
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Distribution:
Native of East Asia
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
White
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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