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Penang Botanic Gardens Plant Collection

Ixora congesta Roxb. (RUBIACEAE)

Posted at — Nov 13, 2019
Malayan Ixora

Description

Evergreen shrub to treelet to 6 m tall. Leaves 12-30 cm long, elliptic to oblong, oppositely arranged. Flowers in many-flowered terminal clusters 15-20 cm across, tubular, yellow turning reddish-orange, not scented. Fruits 7-12 mm across, globose red to purplish black.


Ecology

Evergreen lowland rainforest.

Distribution

S Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia to Moluccan Is.

Uses

Often cultivated as ornamental shrub.