Gardenia (Zhi Zi)
Gardenia jasminoides
About Gardenia (Zhi Zi)
Gardenia (Zhi Zi) (Gardenia jasminoides) is a herb used in the Traditional Chinese Medicine tradition to help with Fever, Liver Support, Anxiety, and Insomnia. The aerial parts and leaves are the parts traditionally used, taken internally.
Botanical background
Gardenia jasminoides, the gardenia, cape jasmine, cape jessamine, danh-danh, or jasmin, is an evergreen flowering plant of the family Rubiaceae. It originated in Asia and is most commonly found growing wild in Vietnam, Southern China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Myanmar, and India. With its shiny green leaves and heavily fragrant white summer flowers, it is widely used in gardens in warm temperate and subtropical climates, and as a houseplant in temperate regions. It has been in cultivation...
Source: Wikipedia, via iNaturalist