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Gardenia resiniflua
resiniflua
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Photo: Rob Burrett
National Botanic Garden, Harare
Photo: Rob Burrett
National Botanic Garden, Harare
Photo: Helen Pickering
Zambian side of Victoria Falls: within the fenced area of the Falls, both up and down stream
Photo: Helen Pickering
Zambian side of Victoria Falls: within the fenced area of the Falls, both up and down stream
Photo: Helen Pickering
Zambian side of Victoria Falls: within the fenced area of the Falls, both up and down stream
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| Common names: | Gummy gardenia (E) | |
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| Status: | Native | |
| Description: |
Shrub or small tree. Bark smooth, pale grey, somewhat peeling. Leaves in whorls of 3 on short, stiff side branchlets, obovate, 2-8 cm, sparsely roughly hairy above except when young, densely velvety below; apex shortly pointed; base running down the petiole. Flowers solitary in the upper leaf axils, white, c. 3 cm long and 3 cm in diameter. Fruit yellowish-brown, ovoid to almost round, c. 15 long, densely covered in short hairs, crowned with the persistent calyx lobes. | |
| Notes: | ||
| Derivation of specific name: | resiniflua: with a flowing resin | |
| Habitat: | In various types of woodland and scrub, often along rivers. | |
| Altitude range: (metres) | Up to 1300 m | |
| Flowering time: | Nov - Dec | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Botswana, DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Limpopo, South Africa. | |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | NWCES | |
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| Insects (whose larvae eat this species): | ||
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| Endemic status: | ||
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species | |
| Content last updated: | Sunday 7 October 2007 |
Other sources of information about Gardenia resiniflua:
Flora of Mozambique: Gardenia resinifluaBiodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Gardenia resiniflua
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Gardenia resiniflua
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Gardenia resiniflua
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GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Gardenia resiniflua
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Gardenia resiniflua
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Gardenia resiniflua
West African Plants database: Gardenia resiniflua
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