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Gardenia fucata

Gardenia fucata
Photo: Sandra Schleter from Australia, CC BY 2.0

Gardenia fucata is a tree in the coffee family native to northern Australia, in the Northern Territory. It is known in cultivation mainly as a fragrant flowering shrub or small tree for warm, humid climates.

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Water regularly during the growing season and keep the soil evenly moist without waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, slightly acidic, humus-rich soil.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
N. Northern Territory
Climate
wet tropical

About

Gardenia fucata is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae native to northern Australia.

Other Gardenia plants

Gardenia actinocarpa · Gardenia anapetes · Gardenia angkorensis · Gardenia barnesii · Forest gardenia · Gardenia candida · Tonga gardenia · Gardenia dacryoides · Gardenia elata · Gardenia erubescens · Gardenia ewartii · Gardenia faucicola

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gardenia fucata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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