Ixora
ಹಳದಿ ಕಿಸುಕಾರೆనూరు వరహాలు - ఎరుపుതെറ്റി
Ixora coccinea L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.5 m
- wide
- 1.2 m
Rubiaceae
Also called Jungle flame, Flame-Of-The-Woods, Scarlet jungleflame
Formerly Pavetta coccinea
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- W. & S. India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh to Indo-ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 1.2 m to 1.8 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 91 cm to 1.5 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Orange, red, pinkRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension orange, pink, red; Wikipedia orange, pink, red, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -6.7 °C (USDA zone 9a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Spanish
- Coralito asiático enano, Coralillo
- Chinese (China)
- 红龙船花, 龙船花, 红花龙船花
- Chinese
- 紅仙丹花, 橙紅龍船花, 橙江龙船花
- Czech
- ixora šarlatová
- Japanese
- ベニデマリ
- Portuguese
- Ixora
- Italian
- Fiamma della giungla
- Sinhala
- රත්මල්
- French
- Ixora écarlate
- root
- kerdeurangebard
- Russian
- Иксора ярко-красная
- Danish
- ildkugle
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Ixora coccinea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.