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Gardenia brighamii | | Scientific classification | | | | Species | | See text. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1632x1224, 220 KB) Name Gardenia brighamii -- habit Family Rubiaceae Downloaded from : [[1]] Credits : US Geological Survey - Photo by Forest & Kim Starr File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed...
Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta - rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta - zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta - trimerophytes Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are the dominant and most familiar group of land plants. ...
Magnoliopsida is the botanical name for a class: this name is formed by replacing the termination -aceae in the name Magnoliaceae by the termination -opsida (Art 16 of the ICBN). ...
Families Gentianaceae (gentian family) Apocynaceae (dogbane family) Gelsemiaceae Loganiaceae (logania family) Rubiaceae (coffee family) The Gentianales are an order of flowering plants, included within the asterid group of dicotyledons. ...
Type Genus Rubia L. Genera See text For a full list, see: List of Rubiaceae genera Egyptian Starcluster Pentas lanceolata White luculia gratissima Rubiaceae Juss. ...
| Gardenia is a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae, native to the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, southern Asia, Australasia and Oceania. In biology, a genus (plural genera) is a taxonomic grouping. ...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are the dominant and most familiar group of land plants. ...
Type Genus Rubia L. Genera See text For a full list, see: List of Rubiaceae genera Egyptian Starcluster Pentas lanceolata White luculia gratissima Rubiaceae Juss. ...
The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. ...
Subtropical (or semitropical) areas are those adjacent to the tropics, usually roughly defined as the ranges 23. ...
For other uses, see Africa (disambiguation). ...
World map showing the location of Asia. ...
The Australasia Ecozone The Australasian ecozone – is an ecological region that is coincident, but not synonymous (by some definitions), with the geographic region of Australasia. ...
Oceania is the smallest of the worlds terrestrial ecozones, and unique in not including any continental land mass. ...
The genus was named by Carolus Linnaeus after Dr Alexander Garden (1730-1791), Scottish-born American naturalist. Carolus Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as , (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist[1] who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of nomenclature. ...
Dr Alexander Garden (1730 – 1791) is most famous as a botanist whose name lives on in the gardenia flower, though he was also a physician and zoologist. ...
They are evergreen shrubs and small trees growing to 1-15 m tall. The leaves are opposite or in whorls of three or four, 5-50 cm long and 3-25 cm broad, dark green and glossy with a leathery texture. The flowers are solitary or in small clusters, white or pale yellow, with a tubular-based corolla with 5-12 lobes ('petals') from 5-12 cm diameter. Flowering is from about mid-spring to mid-summer and many species are strongly scented. A Silver Fir shoot showing three successive years of retained leaves In botany, an evergreen plant is a plant which retains its leaves year-round, with each leaf persisting for more than 12 months. ...
The word bush re-directs here; for alternate uses see Bush (disambiguation). ...
The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth. ...
The leaves of a Beech tree A leaf with laminar structure and pinnate venation In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ...
Clivia miniata A cluster of flowers (Clivia miniata) A Blue Summer Flower. ...
- Selected species
- Gardenia augusta (syn. G. jasminoides; Common Gardenia, Cape Jasmine or Cape Jessamine). Southern China and Japan.
- Gardenia brighamii (Hawaiian Gardenia or Na'u). Lowland Hawaii in tropical dry forests. A shrub or small tree, 1-6 m high.
- Gardenia carinata. India, Malaya.
- Gardenia cornuta (Natal Gardenia). South Africa.
- Gardenia fortunei. Eastern Asia.
- Gardenia gummifera. India. Small tree, to 3 m high.
- Gardenia imperialis. Tropical Africa. Small tree to 12 m.
- Gardenia latifolia. India. Shrub or tree, 5-10 m high.
- Gardenia manii (Na'u). Hawaii.
- Gardenia remyi (Na'u). Hawaii.
- Gardenia resinifera (syn. G. lucida; Brilliant Gardenia, Cambi resin tree, or Dikamali). India. Shrub or small tree, to 3 m high.
- Gardenia resiniflua (Gummy Gardenia). South Africa.
- Gardenia spatulifolia. South Africa.
- Gardenia tahitensis. (Tiare, Tahitian Gardenia). Polynesia.
- Gardenia ternifolia (syn. G. jovis-tonantis; Large-Leaved Transvaal Gardenia). South Africa.
- Gardenia thunbergia (White Gardenia, Forest Gardenia, or Witkatjiepiering). South Africa. Shrub or small tree, 2-5 m high.
- Gardenia tubifera. Southeastern Asia. Small tree to 15 m high.
- Gardenia turgida. India. Shrub or small tree to 4 m high, with spines.
- Gardenia volkensii (Transvaal Gardenia or Savanna Gardenia). Tropical Africa.
In scientific classification, synonymy is the existence of multiple systematic names to label the same organism. ...
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Map of Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia (Malay: Semenanjung Malaysia) is the part of Malaysia which lies on the Malay Peninsula, and shares a land border with Thailand in the north. ...
Carving from the ridgepole of a MÄori house, ca 1840 This article is about the wider region in the Pacific. ...
Cultivation and uses Gardenia plants are prized for the strong sweet scent of their flowers, which can be very large in some species.
Gardenias have a reputation for being difficult to grow. Because they originated in warm humid tropical areas, they demand high humidity to thrive. They flourish in acidic soils with good drainage. Potting soils developed especially for gardenias are available. Humidity is the concentration of water vapor in the air. ...
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Golden Pothos, a typical potted houseplant A houseplant is usually a tropical or semi-tropical plant that is grown indoors in places such as residences and offices. ...
In Japan and China, Gardenia augusta is called Kuchinashi (Japanese) and Zhi zi (Chinese 梔子); the bloom is used as a yellow dye, which is used for clothes and food (including the Korean mung bean jelly called hwangpomuk). Yarn drying after being dyed in the early American tradition, at Conner Prairie living history museum. ...
Binomial name Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek Synonyms Phaeolus aureus Roxb. ...
Hwangpomuk is a Korean food which is a yellow jelly made from mung beans. ...
Gardenia brighamii - flower Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1632x1224, 361 KB) Name Gardenia brighamii flowers Family Rubiaceae Downloaded from : [1] Credits : US Geological Survey - Photo by Forest & Kim Starr File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed...
| Gardenia flower Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (1330x1184, 337 KB) Photo taken by me, Erin Silversmith. ...
| Gardenia flower Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2384x1880, 350 KB) Gardenia flower. ...
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