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Pink Ixora

Ixora duffi

Botanical name	: Ixora duffi.
Common Name	: Pink Ixora
Family	: Rubiaceae
About	: Ixora duffi has large round balls of bright red flowers. Blooms mostly year-round. Heavy feeder. Can reach up to 6' in height. 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. The fruit is variable, sometimes forming multiples.