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This is not Mystery Gardenia
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Posted by longriver SF Bay Area (My Page) on Tue, Jul 3, 07 at 0:24
| This Gardenia looks like Mystery Gardenia, but it is not. This plant was introduced to Northern California from China about 10 Yeasrs ago. Luckily I still have one medium size bush. I should make a few rootings. One nursery might have accquired this gardenia for propagation. This picture flower was spotted in bloom today, at 4 and 1/4 inches in diameter. |
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Beautiful!
How is the fragrance? |
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| The fragrance is typically rich and clean aroma. |
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| Very nice, does it have a cultivar name? |
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| hello, longriver, that is a beautiful bloom. how do you do rootings? all of mine just rots in the water after a while. thanks. |
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| Gardenia is very easy to root with meidum of sand or perlite. I use a small pot filled with with just moist medium, inserted with a few small branches. The pot is placed in a zip-lock. Keep it in my green house. Basically I just forget it about for three months. Usually the root will be showing. |
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| Snasxs, There is possible a special name but I do not have it. All gardenias are native of southeast of China, from Zhejiang to Taiwan Province. They simply call it Ze-Ze flowers. It has different size and flower type. Fortunately I still keep a nice one from Taiwan. It is a small single flower. The petal is rather narrow like spear head. I heard someone calls it as Bird' Tongue Ze-Ze Flower. It is not hardy. I lost many of this large plants during the winter of last 15 years. My survival plants now are very small. |
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| hello, longriver, re rooting, do you cut off the leaves and how much light do you let it have while it is rooting? thanks for the info. sue |
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Longriver, Do you have the same cultivar as the one in picture? I think I read about bird’s tong. Do they bloom later than other gardenias? I agree there are many interesting wild gardenia species. I find this link interesting. It talks about G. Sootepensis which has very large leaves and flowers. 
The site mentions an unidentified Rubiaceae. Maybe it can be named wild pink gardenia? 
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I am thrilled to see your pictures. My place would be too cold to grow the tropical ones. They are possibly in a big family, not in the same section. Gardenia thumbergia for example is a huge tree gardenia native of South Africa.
Your first picture is wonderful. I do not have it. May be we can do exchage next year. My collection of plant is mainly camellias. I have about 1,000 plant in my backyard.
Back to rooting, the prefered condition is warm 80 to 90 dgrees F.( day and light) with about 50% shade in constant humid condition, no wet feet. It is better to have mist spray which is the method of professional. I get by with enclosed envirnment. If water method is also working for you. Why not try both. I also apply grft method to keep my Bird's Tongue growing. It is very easy to take. If you should have only a few precious scions. You should use graft method to establish your stock. After you have a big bush, then try propagate it by rooting. |
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| hello, longriver, thanks. I have saved the info you've given me. sue |
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| longriver, I check several sources. The bird-tong type gardenia does flower in hotter period. In Beijing, ordinary gardenia blooms around June and July. The bird-tong gardenia blooms in July and August. |
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