Zhi Zi Tincture & Alcohol-Free Extract

Zhi Zi (Gardenia jasminoides) is the cape jasmine or common gardenia, an evergreen shrub of the coffee family, Rubiaceae, native to southern China, Taiwan, Japan and Indochina and planted as an ornamental throughout the warm temperate world, including Hawaii. It forms a dense bush 1 to 3 meters tall with glossy, dark green, leathery, oval leaves and large, waxy, intensely fragrant white flowers in summer that age to cream. The ripe fruit is an oval, ribbed, orange-red berry 2 to 4 cm long with a persistent calyx, and its pulp yields a yellow food dye. We extract the dried fruit.