Beautiful whatever it is. Thank you for sharing!

It is most definitely a gardenia. Depending on conditions and soil, they can grow to almost any size. I have one in the edge of my woods (I live at the edge of Stone Mountain park in Ga.) that has grown to over 8 ft. high and is almost as wide. I have a row at the edge of my back porch that are almost 6 ft. high. As soon as they finish blooming this year, it'll be time to cut them back again. Enjoy! There's nothing like the fragrance of a gardenia bush on the breeze.

Definitely, Gardenia....the smell is wonderful! We have a grown Gardenia bush right under our master bedroom window & we leave the window a bit open when it's in full bloom! It's a wonderful smell to lull one to sleep!

Debi, gardening in Florida and NC are very different. I remember growing up in Florida and plants would grow over the weekend, honest.

looks like gardenia.

Camelia

wow,I used to have one when I lived in fl NOT THAT TALL beautiful

The leaves and flower says that it is a Gardenia. They grow huge in the South.

it was my mom's favorite and she had them in her wedding in 1946. However in NYS they do not grow well. We gave her many plants for gifts but the flowers would always fall off no matter what we did - I guess they need the humid weather of Florida. They smell beautiful.

A gardenia

biggg gardenia

Looks like a gardenia to me, too...is there a really nice scent?

It is a Gardenia. The bushes down here get as big as trees.

I have over 50 in our yard. They are around our circle drive and some up around the house.. I started with one plant, roooted the rest, and I do'nt know how many I have given away.. To bad they do'nt last very long, they smell so good late in the eveing.

favors the camelia around here.

it's a gardenia

It's a gardenia bush

It's a southern magnolia tree and they smell so good!!

Nelda, of the 50 you own, have any attained the astonishing height 0f 6 ft?

this really made me curious. I've googled the gardenia and found that there is a variety of this plant called a "Mystery Gardenia" that grows up to 8ft tall. However, it will get very "leggy" if not property taken care of. "Mystery" solved. The most fragrant is the August Gardenia in case you want to plant on of those!

The gardenia I have came from a cutting from my mother-in-law, so I know it is a very old variety. It is over 5' tall, very full, coverd in blooms right now and is very fragrant. I think mine does not get leggy because I trim it back (I just whack at it until I get it the size I want) and because I break off so many blooms to bring inside! That is sort of a month long continuous trimming! HA!

I had gardenias like this in southern CA and they are called giant gardenias, not the little short ones we get in TX I planted them by the front door...oh so nice!

I love, love, love Gardenias but here in Michigan they are only an indoor plant and hard to overwinter. The smell is out of this world. Wow.

Yes, I believe that is a gardenia. I have 2 of them in my front yard, both are taller than I am. I got them as a snipping from a neighbor 15 years ago. They are very fragrant, so I cut some branches and put them in a vase. Before I knew it, they were rooting. So, now I have 4.

yes it is a gardinia. yery easy to grow and a fast grower . love the beautiful fragrant smell