“栀子比众木,人间诚未多”(唐·杜甫)。确实,栀子叶色碧绿明亮,四季常青,夏初开花,花色洁白如雪,气味芳香幽馥,即使花黄凋萎仍然余香四溢。正是“雪魄冰花凉气清,曲阑深处艳精神”。栀子花由于香气浓烈纯正,故列入我国十大香花,也是我国十三种茶用香花之一。是人们深为喜爱的庭园和盆栽花卉。栀子(Gardenia jasminoides Ellis.)又名木丹、越桃、黄栀子、山栀、水黄栀、水栀花、白蟾花、林兰、婵蒲等,为茜草科,栀子花属。因它的果实似酒杯而得名。李时珍的《本草纲目》载:“卮,酒器也,卮子象之,故名。俗作栀”。栀子花原产我国。《汉书》中就有“汉有栀茜园”的记述。可见栀子花在我国已有两千 “Gardenia than all wood, the world is not much” (Don Du Fu). Indeed, gardenia leaf color green bright, evergreen, early summer flowering, white as snow, fragrant aroma Fu, even if the flower yellow withered fragrance still overflowing. It is “snow ice Qinglv Qing Qi, fascia deep Yan Spirit.” Gardenia flowers due to strong aroma, it is included in China’s top ten fragrant flowers, but also one of China’s thirteen kinds of tea with fragrant flowers. People are deeply loved garden and potted flowers. Gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides Ellis.) Also known as wood, peach, yellow gardenia, gardenia, water gardenia, water gardenia, white toad, Lin Lan, Chan Po, Rubiaceae, Gardenia . Because of its fruit-like wine glass named. Li Shizhen’s “Compendium of Materia Medica” contains: “卮, wine is also, like the son of the child, hence the name. Gardenia native to China. ”Han“ there is ”Han Gardenia Park," the account. Gardenias can be seen in our country has two thousand