KOPS-ee-a -- named for Jan Kops [↗], Dutch agronomist and botanist ... Dave's Botanary
froo-tih-KOH-suh -- shrubby ... Dave's Botanary
commonly known as: pink gardenia, pink kopsia, shrub vinca • Bengali: ডাকুর dakur • Telugu: గుత్తి గన్నేరు gutti ganneru
known for / parts made use of: flowers, roots, leaves & stems, latex & bark ... compiled from the web.
botanical names: Kopsia fruticosa (Roxb.) A.DC. ... homotypic synonyms: Calpicarpum roxburghii G.Don • Cerbera fruticosa Roxb. • Kopsia roxburghii (G.Don) Pharm. ex Wehmer ... heterotypic synonyms: Kopsia vinciflora Blume • Tabernaemontana rosea Ten. ... and more at POWO, retrieved September 23, 2026
known for / parts made use of: flowers, roots, leaves & stems, latex & bark ... compiled from the web.
Bibliography / etymology / notes
Links listed as references in the notes below, may not remain valid permanently. Portals / websites have a tendency to re-organize / revise their content, leading to change in URLs of pages in their site. Some sites may even close down at their own will. The bits about the languages of India mentioned below are merely some bare facts gathered from the internet; just enough to satisfy curiosity about "where" could the listed names be best prevalent in India. All English transliterated names to be taken sensu amplo.
~~~~~ ENGLISH ~~~~~
written and spoken widely, in most parts of India
pink gardenia
- Flowers of India ... (accessed: September 23, 2026)
pink kopsia, shrub vinca
- Flowers of India ... (accessed: September 23, 2026)
- Mukhopadhyay, D. P. & Chakraverty, R. K. (2008) — PLANT WEALTH OF THE RAJ BHAVAN KOLKATA — Occasional Paper - 5 from Raj Bhavan, Kolkata ... (accessed: September 23, 2026)
~~~~~ BENGALI ~~~~~
written in: Bengali (বাংলা) ... spoken in: West Bengal, Assam, Jharkhand, Tripura, Andaman & Nicobar Islands
ডাকুর dakur
- Mukhopadhyay, D. P. & Chakraverty, R. K. (2008) — PLANT WEALTH OF THE RAJ BHAVAN KOLKATA — Occasional Paper - 5 from Raj Bhavan, Kolkata ... (accessed: September 23, 2026)
~~~~~ TELUGU ~~~~~
written in: Telugu ( తెలుగు) ... spoken in: Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Puducherry
గుత్తి గన్నేరు gutti ganneru
- Digital Flora of Eastern Ghats by Herbarium JCB ... (accessed: September 23, 2026)
~~~~~ KNOWN DISTRIBUTION in INDIA ~~~~~
cultivated in parks and gardens, not native to India; native of Myanmar
- Middleton, David. (2004). A revision of Kopsia (Apocynaceae: Rauvolfioideae). Harvard Pap. Bot. 9. ... (accessed: September 24, 2026)
- While renowned databases record its native range spanning from Myanmar to the Andaman Islands, modern taxonomic revisions — most notably Dr David Middleton's authoritative 2004 revision — suggest it is truly wild only in Myanmar, with populations elsewhere being historical cultivated introductions. ... compiled from the web.
A TALE OF TWO AUTHORS — the Kopsia fruticosa citation
The choice of author citation for this species varies among major botanical databases due to differing historical interpretations of its basionym, Cerbera fruticosa. Both traditions agree that French botanist Alphonse de Candolle (A.DC.) successfully transferred the species to the genus Kopsia in 1844.
However, authorities diverge on the parenthetical author:
- (Roxb.) is maintained by databases such as Plants of the World Online (POWO) and World Flora Online (WFO), attributing the original concept to William Roxburgh.
- (Ker Gawl.) is utilized by checklists like World Plants and the Catalogue of Life, prioritizing the first validly published description by John Bellenden Ker Gawler in 1819.
To bridge this nomenclatural history, the comprehensive citation Kopsia fruticosa (Roxb. ex Ker Gawl.) A.DC. is also frequently applied in taxonomic literature. This blog adopts the POWO standard for consistency with the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
... compiled from the web.
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Created on: 13:21 23-09-2026 ¦ Last updated: 10:11 24-09-2026 (DD-MM-YYYY)
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