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flame of the woods
Ixora coccinea
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Field Notes
Description:
Ixora coccinea is an ornamental shrub that grows to 2 to 3 meters. The leaves are oblong, 5 to 9 centimeters long, heart-shaped or rounded at the base, and blunt-tipped, with no stalks or short stalks (Stuart, 2016). Flowers are numerous, pink or red, and borne in terminal, stalkless or stalked, hairy cymes. The teeth of the calyx are sharp and pointed. The corolla tube is 2.5 centimeters long, with lobes that are spreading and oblong and about half the length of the tube. The fruit is reddish, almost round, and about 5 millimeters in diameter (Stuart, 2016).
Reference:
Stuart, G. J. (2016, July 5). DWARF SANTAN: Philippine Medicinal Plants / Philippine Alternative Medicine. Philippine Medical Plants. http://www.stuartxchange.org/Santan.html
Habitat:
The Indian subcontinent, including Sri Lanka and tropical Southeast Asia, is home to Ixora coccinea (Chabert-Llompart, 2017). This species has been introduced and cultivated throughout the New World's tropical and subtropical regions; it is cultivated extensively in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand; and it has naturalized in Puerto Rico (Chabert-Llompart, 2017).
Reference:
Chabert-Llompart, J. (2017, June 1). Ixora coccinea (flame-of-the-woods). CABI. https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/29175#eb9f4cf6-138d-437c-87a7-195f51…
Notes:
The genus Ixora is thought to have been named after the Sanskrit word "ikvana," which refers to a Malaysian deity, or possibly after the name "Iswara," which is another name for Lord Shiva, to whom flowers are offered during worship. The genus name "coccinea" translates as "scarlet" (Stuart, 2016).
Reference:
Stuart, G. J. (2016, July 5). DWARF SANTAN: Philippine Medicinal Plants / Philippine Alternative Medicine. Philippine Medical Plants. http://www.stuartxchange.org/Santan.html
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