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Native Gardenia

Gardenia ovularis

Native Gardenia
Photo: Steve Fitzgerald, CC BY-SA 4.0

Gardenia ovularis is a small rainforest tree from north-east Queensland, Australia, found in a very restricted coastal range. It is rarely grown outside its native area, so care advice draws on general knowledge of warm, humid tropical gardenias.

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth, and avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Well-drained, acidic, humus-rich mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland (E. Cook)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Gardenia ovularis is a small tree in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to a very restricted part of north east Queensland, namely the coastal rainforests from the Bloomfield River southwards to Etty Bay, and with a further isolated occurrence at Mount Elliot, south of Townsville It was first described by Frederick Manson Bailey in 1893.

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 ovularis 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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