cape jasmine

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Related to cape jasmine: Gardenia jasminoides

Cape jasmine

[After the Cape ofGood Hope, from which the plant was introduced to Europe (although it is native to China).]

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Cape jasmine

(Plants) a widely cultivated gardenia shrub, Gardenia jasminoides. See gardenia

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cape jasmine - evergreen shrub widely cultivated for its large fragrant waxlike white flowers and glossy leaves

cape jessamine, Gardenia augusta, Gardenia jasminoides

gardenia - any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Gardenia having large fragrant white or yellow flowers

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In the South, it was frequently referred to as cape jasmine. Gardenia bushes have beautiful waxy, green leaves and lovely white flowers.

sweet smell of summer: Beautiful blooms create beautiful aromas in summertime gardens

Queen of the plants for indoor fragrance, however, has to be Gardenia jasminoides - cape jasmine.

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Chinese-medicine practitioners have used pods from this shrub, also known as the cape jasmine, for thousands of years to treat type 2 diabetes.