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Gardenia sootepensis
Golden Gardenia
| Family |
| Rubiaceae |
| Genus |
| Gardenia |
| Species |
| sootepensis |
| Category |
| Tropicals |
| Height |
| 15 m |
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Description and Growing Information
Flowering Period
| Habitat |
| Thailand, Vietnam and Laos |
| Bark/Stem Description |
| Trunk smooth, greyish-light brown, dippled, lenticellate, outer bark green, inner bark light brown, sapwood white. |
| Flower Description |
| Solitary flower, axillary, pedicel longer than 5 mm, tube up to 6 cm long, and lobe up to 5 cm long. Whitish cream then turning dark yellow, with intensive sweet smell. |
| Fruit Description |
| Fruit berry-like solitary, oblanceolate, 5 cm. long and about 3-4 cm. in diameter. Young fruit green with longitudinal ridges and many brown dots. Fruits splitting to expose seeds in orange pulp. |
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