Gardenia taitensis Heaven Scent, Tahiti Gardenia

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Gardenia taitensis Heaven Scent, Tahiti Gardenia

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Gardenia taitensis Heaven Scent
Family: Rubiaceae
Tahiti Gardenia
Origin: Tahiti
Large shrub 5-10 ft

Subtropical, cold hardy at least to 30s F for a short time

This hybrid variety is very rare and hard to find. The plant has huge double 5-6" flowers, normally semi-double, but sometimes they come in weird shapes. One of the few cultivated plants native to Polynesia. The intoxicating sweet fragrant blossoms are creamy white works of art. The biggest size gardenia flowers. Foliage is beautiful as well with its dark green shiny leaves, also large as big as 7-8" long and 4-5" wide. Read more about gardenias.

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Huge flowers 5-6 inch wide (15 cm)

Left - Gardenia taitensis 'Nana', right - Gardenia taitensis 'Heaven Scent'

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Gardenia taitensis Heaven Scent (double flower)

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4402 Gardenia taitensis Heaven Scent (double flower)

This unique hybrid is very rare and hard to find. The plant has huge double flowers up to 5-6" wide, normally semi-double, but sometimes they come in weird shapes. One of the few cultivated plants native to Polynesia. The intoxicating sweet fragrant blossoms are creamy white works of art. The biggest size gardenia flowers. Foliage is beautiful as well with its dark green shiny leaves, also large as big as 7-8" long and 4-5" wide. It is not easy to grow and very sensitive to overwatering. However, grafted

What is grafted plant

Q: What is a grafted plant?

Grafting is a method of vegetative (or asexual) propagation where a piece of one plant (scion) selected for its flowers or fruit and containing the desired genes to be duplicated is inserted into a piece of another plant (rootstock), with a strong vigorous root system, usually a seedling.

Benefits of the graft:

making a clone of the parent plant ensures the same cultivar, since most fruit trees will not come true to seed
taking a scion from a mature plant reduces time to flowering and fruiting (from 10-12 years for a seedling to 2-3 years or less for a grafted plant)
introducing dwarfing, hardiness, disease and pest resistance.
easier propagation method when other means like cutting or seed is not successful

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plants do much better in the ground than in pots and are relatively cold hardy (can take light frost). See size of flower in inches.
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Grown in 10"/3 gal pot

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