Gardenia jasminoides (Gardenia, Cape Jasmine, Gandharaj)

Gardenia jasminoides (Gardenia, Cape Jasmine, Gandharaj) is Medium to large shrub, or sometimes small tree, frequently bushy, with ovate, elliptic, or lance-shaped, glossy, deep green leaves, 10cm or more long, usually borne in whorls of 3. From summer to autumn, produces 5- to 12-lobed, salverform, strongly fragrant, white to ivory flowers, to 8cm across, either singly or in few-flowered cymes. Usually grown in its double-flowered variants.