Friday, September 10, 2010

Gardenia


Gardenia is recognized as one of the most loved exotic flowering plants. The genus got its name in honor of a physician from Charleston- Alexander garden. This flowering plant originates from the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, southern Asia, Australasia and Oceania.

These evergreen shrubs and small trees attain the height from 1 to15 m. The Gardenia species are notable by creamy-white to light-yellow blooms and lustrous, deep-green leaves with opposite arrangement. They are simple with entire of wavy margins. The majority of its species are distinguished by strong and pleasing odor.

It blooms are borne individually or in small clusters; they come in a tube-like corolla with 5-12 petals.The blooming time for this plant takes place from the middle of spring to the middle of summer.

Gardenia flowering plant is prized for their splendid foliage: it is a fantastic cut flower and is widely used as screens, hedges, bordering or ground covering plant.

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