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Orange Ixora

Ixora coccinea

Botanical name	: Ixora coccinea.
Common Name	: Orange Ixora
Family	: Rubiaceae
About	: Ixora coccinea is a bushy, rounded shrub that has long been a popular hedging plant in the subtropical regions because of beautiful bright clusters of flowers year around. Ixoras freely produce loose, corymb-like cymes, 2-5" across of orange or yellow flowers. The leaves are simple and usually entire, and are opposite or sometimes whorled; stipules are present and interpetiolar. The flowers are nearly always bisexual and actinomorphic, often heterostylous, and usually are in cymose inflorescences.