Gardenia cornuta - Natal Gardenia - Indigenous South African Shrub / Tree - 10 Seeds squash

Gardenia cornuta - Natal Gardenia - Indigenous South African Shrub / Tree - 10 Seeds squashGardenia cornuta is a shrub or multi branched small tree, growing 3 to 5 m tall, with erect and spreading main branches, branchlets sometimes with thick thorns, a trunk that is whitish grey, the bark is smooth, often flaking into thin peels. Leaves are smooth and crowded at the ends of twigs, usually in whorls of three, light glossy green, short stalked, 20 30 mm long and broad, margins smooth; stipules joined to form a ring around the node. Flowers

But most species are more conventionally pollinated by insects or birds

Please research this properly if you wish to use the plant for medicinal or culinary purposes

Found in Southern Africa

Does best in cooler weather

it's actually related to beetroots

dioica) and White Campion (S

tender climbing bean that produces good quantities of up to 18cm beans

flowering in spring to summer

such as in the form of herbal tea

The leaf margins are strongly serrated

A pleasant tea can be made from the dried flowers

dense rosette