Gardenia has the effects of purging fire and relieving annoyance, clearing away heat and diuresis, cooling blood and detoxifying. Flowers can be used as the spice of tea, and fruits can diminish inflammation and dispel heat. This is an excellent fragrant flower. Gardenia likes an environment with sufficient light and good ventilation, but it should avoid strong light. It should be planted in loose and fertile acid soil with good drainage. It can be propagated by cutting, layering, dividing plants or sowing.

Gardenia leaves are evergreen all the year round, flowers are fragrant and elegant, with green leaves and white flowers, which are particularly beautiful and lovely. Suitable for terraces, Chi Pan, roadsides, hedges and potted plants, and flowers can also be used for arranging flowers and wearing decorations.

Flowers are fragrant, usually solitary at the top of branches, and pedicels are 3-5 mm long; Calyx tube is obconical or ovoid, 8-25mm long, with longitudinal edges, tubular calyx eaves, swollen, 5-8-lobed at the top, usually 6-lobed, lobes lanceolate or linear-lanceolate,10-30mm long and1-4mm wide, growing and persistent when bearing fruit;

Corolla white or milky yellow, saucer-shaped, sparse throat. The crown tube is narrow cylindrical, 3-5 cm long and 4-6 mm wide, with 5-8 cracks at the top, generally 6. Lobes are broadly spreading, obovate or obovate-oblong, with a length of 1.5-4 cm and a width of 0.6-2.8 cm. The style is stout, about 4.5 cm long, the stigma is spindle-shaped, protruding, 1- 1.5 cm long, 3-7 mm wide, and the ovary is about 3 mm in diameter, yellow and smooth.

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The fruit of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis is called "Gardenia jasminoides Ellis", which is a medicinal material with homology of medicine and food. Crocin and crocetin contained in Gardenia are rare water-soluble carotenoids, which can be used as food additives.

1, gardenia is small, thin-skinned, complete, full of kernels and red inside and outside. It is customary to think that Zhejiang produces the best. Raw, dry or burnt. When you are alive, you will purge fire from qi, and when you are fried black, you will leave blood to stop bleeding.

2. The peel of Gardenia tends to reach the surface to remove the heat from the skin; Gardenia kernel tends to enter and clear fire.

3. Picking and processing of Gardenia jasminoides Ellis: The fruit turns red and yellow when it is ripe in September ~165438+1October, and the fruit stems and impurities are removed, dried or slightly scalded in boiling water, and then taken out and dried.

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