Ixora

Family Rubiaceae. The genus bears the name of a Malabar deity to whom these plants were dedicated. About 400 species distributed in the tropics.

A capricious plant. In a tropical "flower window" the plant blooms all summer; in a pot it may drop flower buds even when a constant temperature and high air humidity are maintained.

Javan ixora - Ixora javanica. A shrub with brownish or reddish shoots, reaching 120 cm in height. Leaves opposite, up to 10-12 cm long, ovate or narrowly ovate, gradually tapering into a short petiole, with a slightly serrate margin. Flowers in terminal dense, compound corymb-like inflorescences, orange-red. Calyx up to 3 mm long, red. Corolla with a four-lobed, wheel-shaped limb up to 2.5 cm in diameter and a long (up to 5 cm) narrow tube. Stamens with reddish anthers, bending outward and downward between the lobes of the limb. Native to the island of Java. In cultivation since 1846.

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