Gardenia is recognized as one of the most loved

Gardenia is recognized as one of the most loved exotic flowering plants. The genus got its name in honor of a physician from Charleston- Alexander garden. This flowering plant originates from the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa, southern Asia, Australasia and Oceania.
These evergreen shrubs and small trees attain the height from 1 to15 m. The Gardenia species are notable by creamy-white to light-yellow blooms and lustrous, deep-green leaves with opposite arrangement. They are simple with entire of wavy margins. The majority of its species are distinguished by strong and pleasing odor.
It blooms are borne individually or in small clusters; they come in a tube-like corolla with 5-12 petals.The blooming time for this plant takes place from the middle of spring to the middle of summer.
Gardenia flowering plant is prized for their splendid foliage: it is a fantastic cut flower and is widely used as screens, hedges, bordering or ground covering plant.

　　

Gloriosa is a genus comprising 5-6 species

Gloriosa is a genus comprising 5-6 species from the family Colchicaceae. They are native to tropical Africa and Asia.
Their common name is Glory lilies or Flame lilies. These slender deciduous perennial plants tend to climb over other plants by means of their tendrils formed at the terminals of their leaves.
The plant is capable to attain the length of 3 m. Its spectacular 6-petal- blooms are notable by their pronouncedly reflexed petals, varying in color with a range of a greenish-yellow through yellow, orange, red and even a dark pinkish-red.
The glory lily is considered to be of the most exotic blooming vines that can be grown in the Southern garden.
The attractive species of this springtime flowering plants Gloriosa superba is the national flower of Zimbabwe and was the national flower of Rhodesia. Beside of it represents the state flower of Tamil Nadu state in India.
The Africans and Indians use it in traditional medicine.