Gardenia
[ɡɑːrˈdiniə]Meaning
from the gardenia flower, named for naturalist Alexander Garden (1730–1791)
Background Story
Gardenia comes from the name of the tropical flower, which was named for the Scottish naturalist Alexander Garden. The Gardenia genus was named by Carl Linnaeus and John Ellis, after the name was first proposed to Linnaeus in 1753 by Jane Colden.
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