Again beautiful Shots Sir. Nurserymen called many dwarf Ixoras as Chinese ixora
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Gurcharan Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > *Ixora chinensis* Lamk., Encycl. 3: 344. 1789 > syn: *Ixora* *dubia* Schutt; *Ixora* *incarnata* Roxb. ex Smith; *Ixora* * > rosea* Sims. > > Common name: Chinese ixora > > Small shrub up to 1.5 m tall; leaves oblong, elliptic to elliptic-obovate, > 6-9 cm long, gradually narrowed to rounded base, subsessile with petiole > barely 2-3 mm long; pink to orange in trichotomously branched corymbose > cymes, of the three flowers in each cyme central sessile, lateral with 2-3 > mm long pedicel; calyx lobes minute; corolla tube 20-30 mm, lobes elliptic, > 5-8 mm long, apex broadly obtuse to rounded; fruit reddish-black, > subglobose, 6-7 mm long. > > Frequently planted in gardens. Looking similar to I. coccinea in smaller > flowers but obtuse (and not acute) corolla lobes and leaves subsessile (and > not sessile). Photographed from Khalsa College, Delhi. > > > > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- Regards Dr Balkar Singh Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology Arya P G College, Panipat Haryana-132103 09416262964
