could someone tell me name of the flower? I need its name!?

Question

here is the picture of the flower. http://www.flickr.com/photos/80735812@N00/

it's grown in Southeast Asia. It has stronger smell than jasmine.

Answer 1

That is Murraya paniculata, commonly known as orange jasmine or mock orange in the US and as rain bush in Australia. It is a native of Australia and South East Asia and a serious environmental weed in Hawaii.

The plant comes in a variety of forms, with the Australian form having smaller, rounder olive green leaves and more leaflets to each leaf. The one in your photo looks like the Malayan form, with large glossy green leaves and relatively few leaflets. There are also cultivated dwarf forms that only grow to a a metre or so in height that make reasonable indoor plants

They are available at most nurseries and grow well in most of the southern US.

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Maverick that is most definitely NOT any type of Gardenia. Gardenias are characterised by TERMINAL infloresences and an INFERIOR gynoecium. You can see quite plainly from the photographs that this plant has AXILLIARY inflorescences and the gynoecium is SUPERIOR.

Moreover, as you yourself point out, G. jasminoides has SIMPLE leaves. This plant quite clearly has COMPOUND leaves. To the untrained eye this may not be obvious, but look at the first photo provided and look at the flower at the top right. If you look at the leaf that is partially obscuring that flower you can quite clearly see the individual leaflets.

Added to that G jasminoides has >11 perianth parts. These flowers have 5-10. Have a look at some Gogle images of G. jasminoides. The flowers all have >6 petals and have a superficial similarity to roses. These flowers have only 5 petals.

This plant quite clearly belongs to the Rutacea. It can not therefore be a Gardenia.

I'm not sure if you are claimiong to be a botanist yourself or that your information comes form a botanist, but I would fail my botany students for identifying that plant as a member of the Rubiacea.

Answer 2

The name is Gardenia jasminoides of family Apocynaceae.
The fragrance is like jasmine hence 'jasminoides' ( Jasmine like)

Murraya paniculata ( Murraya exotica) has much smaller flowers and compound leaves with smaller leaflets.

The flowers in the picture are larger and leaves are simple with glossy upper surface , as to be expected in Gardenia jasminoides.

Answer 3

It looks a little like hibiscus, though I dont recall hybiscus having the sexual organs visible on top of the bud.

Answer 4

If you don't get an answer here, I have a suggestion.

If you go to gardenweb.com , go to forums, andthey have a "name that plant" forum.
you could register for free, post your picture and details and I KNOW someone there would be able to tell you what it is. good luck

Answer 5

Maybe that is a daisy, or maybe not. I know the name before, but I forgot!

Answer 6

I wish I knew, but its beautiful.

Answer 7

orange jasmine

Answer 8

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