Yellow gardenia

Yellow gardenia, also called: gardenia, yellow gardenia, mountain gardenia, Hakka people called yellow fruit. Shrub, 0.3~3 meters high; Shoots often covered with short hairs, branches cylindrical, gray.

Leaves opposite, leathery, sparsely papery, rarely in whorls of 3, leaf shape varied, usually oblong-lanceolate, obovate-oblong, obovate or elliptic, 3-25 centimeters long, 1.5-8 centimeters wide, apical acuminate, cuspidate-long acuminate or mucronate and obtuse, basal cuneate or mucronate, both surfaces often glabrous, bright green above, darker underneath; grows in the altitude of 10~1,500 meters in the It grows in the thickets or forests at the altitude of 10~1,500 meters in the wilderness, hills, valleys, mountain slopes, and streamsides, and is produced in the south of Yangtze River Basin in China. The fruits are bitter and cold in taste, and are used for clearing away heat, diarrhea, and cooling of the blood; they contain yellow pigment, which can be extracted as a natural pigment, and used as a food additive.

Chinese name yellow gardenia Latin name Gardenia jasminoides Ellis

Alias gardenia, yellow gardenia, mountain gardenia