Description

The fruits of Gardenia jasminoides, whose major bioactive constituents are genipin and crocins, were used as an imperial dye for royal costumes during the Qin and Han dynasties in China and are recorded in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia.

Scientific classitication

Family: Rubiaceae

Genus: Gardenia

Common Name

gardenia

Reference

Xu, Z., Pu, X., Gao, R., Demurtas, O. C., Fleck, S. J., Richter, M., ... & Hu, K. (2020). Tandem gene duplications drive divergent evolution of caffeine and crocin biosynthetic pathways in plants. BMC biology, 18(1), 1-14.