Sticker of a Tiare Flower or Tahitian Gardenia .. the name tahitian gardenia is somewhat of a misnomer because it is neither native nor naturalized to Tahiti .. the first acceptable scientific name for the plant was based on Tahitian specimens collected by Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1824 .. hence the scientific name of Gardenia taitensis, and the English name of Tahitian Gardenia or Tiaré Flower .. it was collected in Tahiti, by Johann Reinhold Forster and his son Johann Georg Adam Forster, who traveled as naturalist on Captain Cook's second voyage (1772–75) to the pacific.