Ixora coccinea

Try ixora for a lush, tropical look

Name: Ixora coccinea.
 
Common name: Flame of the woods.
 
Description: A tropical beauty with dark-green leaves and bright clusters of red, orange or yellow flowers. Ixora grows 5-10 feet tall. It flowers throughout the summer.

Hardiness: This tender tropical is hardy only in Zones 9-11.

Landscape use: It grows best in full sun. Use in containers or in the landscape paired with other tropicals. It also makes a nice hedge in the appropriate climate. Ixora has moderate drought tolerance.

Propagation: By cuttings in spring or by seed.

 

 

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