Local Name: Botanical Name: Family: Found in Zone No.
????? Gardenia sp. RUBIACEAE 3
Descriptions : Tree Small tree, deciduous, producing flowers after leaves are shed; tips of branches forming sharp thorns; newly emerged short shoots resinous; leaves opposite, spathulate, with lamina decurrent to base of petiole; several flowers terminal on short shoots; flowers frangrant, shortly pedicellate; calyx tubular, greenish, with 5 or 6 small, tooth-like lobes; corolla somewhat fleshy, salverform, creamy-white, greenish on outside of tube, with 5 or 6 elliptic, imbricate lobes; inside of corolla tube hairy near base; stamens 5, adnate to inside of corolla tube, slightly (or not) exsert, with very short filaments; ovary inferior, style cylindrical with large, fusiform stigma; locule 1(?)
