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Gardenia psidioides

Gardenia psidioides
Photo: Ethel Aardvark, CC BY 3.0

Gardenia psidioides is a native Australian shrub from Cape York in Queensland, in the coffee family, grown mainly as a frost-free garden plant. It needs warm, humid conditions and reasonably moist, well-drained soil.

Family
Rubiaceae (Coffee family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the soil evenly moist during growth, and water less in cooler months.
Soil
Moist, well-drained, slightly acidic humus-rich soil.
Temperature
18–32 °C; protect below 10 °C
How easy
Moderate
Native range
Queensland (N. Cape York Pen.)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Gardenia psidioides is a species of plant in the family Rubiaceae native to northeastern 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 psidioides 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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