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Ixora coccinea L.

Synonyms

Pavetta coccinea

Common names

Flame of the woods, jungle flame, jungle geranium

Extract from Wikipedia article

Ixora coccinea (or jungle geranium, flame of the woods, and jungle flame) is a species of flowering plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is a common flowering shrub native to Southern India and Sri Lanka. It has become one of the most popular flowering shrubs in South Florida gardens and landscapes. Its name derives from an Indian deity.

Jungle geranium (Ixora coccinea) in a park at Al Markhiya Street near a corner with Onaiza. Doha, Qatar, May 2, 2015
Al Markhiya Street, Doha, Qatar

Flowers of jungle geranium (Ixora coccinea) in a park at Al Markhiya Street near a corner with Onaiza. Doha, Qatar, May 2, 2015
Al Markhiya Street, Doha, Qatar

Jungle geranium (Ixora coccinea) in a park at Al Markhiya Street near a corner with Onaiza. Doha, Qatar, May 26, 2015
Al Markhiya Street, Doha, Qatar

Jungle geranium (Ixora coccinea) planted in a park at Al Markhiya Street near a corner with Onaiza. Doha, Qatar, April 28, 2016
Al Markhiya St, Doha, Qatar

Jungle geranium (Ixora coccinea) in a park at Al Markhiya Street near a corner with Al Istiqlal. Doha, Qatar, May 4, 2016
Al Markhiya St, Doha, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Ixora coccinea, Wikipedia article
• Ixora coccinea from www.catalogueoflife.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

How the web page was created

• A list of plants with their common names was written using online sources and books.
• Web pages were written by a program consisting of several scripts.
• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
• This web page was written using a script.

Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.