Gardenia is unlucky because many old people think that gardenia is only white and has no other colors, so it is unlucky to put it at home. In addition, Feng Shui believes that planting too many gardenias at home will block the yang, so it is enough to plant gardenias in sunny and well-ventilated places.
Gardenia, a shrub of Gardenia in Rubiaceae, is usually short-haired, cylindrical and gray; Leaves oblong-lanceolate and obovate-oblong; The flowers are fragrant, and a single flower is born at the top of the branch; Fruit ovoid, subglobose or oval, yellow or orange-red; Seeds numerous, suborbicular and slightly angular; The flowering period is from March to July, and the fruiting period is from May to February. Gardenia in Compendium of Materia Medica is called Zi, and _ is the same as Yi. Its fruit is similar to the bronze wine vessel "Yi" of Shang and Zhou Dynasties, so the ancients conveniently called it "Gardenia".
Gardenia originated in China and is now distributed in Shandong, Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang and other places in China. Foreign countries are distributed in Japan, North Korea, Pakistan, Pacific Islands and North America. Born in the wilderness, hills, valleys, hillsides, shrubs or forests by streams at an altitude of 10 ~ 1500m; Suitable for growing in loose, fertile, well-drained and slightly sticky acid soil; Propagation methods include seed propagation and cutting propagation.