Data sources

Each value Trefle shows for Gardenia jasminoides, with what every source says about it. When sources disagree, the strongest source is shown (how sources are ranked). Values imported before sources were recorded one by one are marked Source not recorded.

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Sourced6 Source not recorded9 Not on the record4 Sources: TRY Plant Trait Database, Earlier Trefle data

Field	Shown	What the sources say
Core
Author	J.Ellis	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Bibliography	Philos. Trans. 51(2): 935 (1761)	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phylum	Tracheophyta	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Rank	species	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Status	accepted	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Year	1761	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Descriptive
Common name	Cape jasmine	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Observations	Indo-China to SC. & S. Japan	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Morphology
Average height	300 cm	300 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 5 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 68, 236, 668, 873, 909	Sourced
Flower color	empty	white · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 668	Not on the record
Foliage color	green	green · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 18 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 236, 443, 879	Sourced
Foliage texture	coarse	coarse · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 9 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 236, 443, 879	Sourced
Growth habit	Shrub	Shrub · Earlier Trefle data · Reported · 2026-10-19 value present before provenance tracking (2022 import), no source recorded	Sourced
Maximum height	empty	300 cm · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 68, 236, 668, 873, 909	Not on the record
Vegetable	false	No source recorded	Source not recorded
Phenology
Duration	perennial	perennial · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 12 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 236, 443, 879	Sourced
Ecology
Nitrogen fixation	None	None · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 4 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 20, 57, 444	Sourced
Usda legacy
C n ratio	empty	29.9 · TRY Plant Trait Database · Measured · 6 observations · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 412	Not on the record
Other
Human usage type	—	medical, ornamental, other, timber · TRY Plant Trait Database · Reported · 1 observation · 2026-10-09 TRY 7.0 datasets 68	Not on the record

Gardenia jasminoides J.Ellis, 1761 20% complete

Cape jasmine

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