''Ceriscoides turgida'' (syn. ''Gardenia turgida''), the mountain gardenia, is a species of flowering plant in the family

Rubiaceae The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules ...

, native to the Indian Subcontinent and mainland Southeast Asia. A tree reaching , its unripe fruit can be boiled and eaten as a

famine food A famine food or poverty food is any inexpensive or readily available food used to nourish people in times of hunger and starvation, whether caused by extreme poverty, such as during economic depression or war, or by natural disasters such as ...

, but its ripe fruit are poisonous.

References

Gardenieae Flora of the Indian subcontinent Flora of Indo-China Plants described in 1978 {{Ixoroideae-stub