Ixora coccinea

  • clustered flowers of Jungle flame plant
    flower cluster of Jungle flame
  • green leaves and flowers bud of Jungle flame ixora
    leaves arrangement of Jungle flame ixora
  • red flowers, buds and green leaves of Jungle flame ixora
    Jungle flame ixora
  • red flower tubes and green leaves of jungle geranium plant
    leaves pattern of jungle geranium
  • scarlet flowers with flower-tubes of Ixora coccinea plants are erecting.
    red flower of Ixora coccinea
  • beautiful red flower-tubes are at branch end of the jungle geranium
    jungle geranium
  • lush bunches of flowers at branch end of Ixora coccinea
    Ixora coccinea
  • A bunch of young flowers are with green leaves of jungle geranium
    evergreen shrub jungle geranium
  • branches of a Ixora coccinea plant with green leaves, red flowers, and bunches of young red flowers.
    branch of Ixora coccinea plant

Ixora coccinea is a bushy, evergreen, and flowering shrub in the family Rubiaceae. The shrub is found in Assam. The Assamese common name of the plant is Rangan, Rogiyal-phul, Ronga-rangan. Other common names of the shrub are English Jungle flame, Jungle geranium, Sacred Ixora, Jungle flame ixora, Flame of the woods, Needle flower. Arrangement of leaves of Ixora coccinea is opposite deccussate, shape of leaves is elliptic to oblong, margin of leaves is entire. Flowers bloom at branch-ends, in dense corymb-like cymes, flower-cluster-stalk very short or absent, flowers are stalkless, bright scarlet.

Ixora coccinea has many medicinal properties. Roots are stomachic, sedative, astringent, febrifuse and acrid. Leaf extract is given in dysentery. Bark powder is applied to sores, burns and injuries.

Scientific classification of Ixora coccinea
Kingdom : Plantae  
Phylum : Tracheophyta  
Class : Magnoliopsida  
Order : Gentianales  
Family : Rubiaceae  
Genus : Ixora  
Accepted name : Ixora coccinea L.

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