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The red bloom
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The Red Ixora will add colour to your garden.
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RED BUNCHES of flowers of the Ixora plant never fail to attract. In spite of the arrival of many new varieties of Ixora, the old favourite, Ixora coccinea, still remains a favourite.
The Ixora coccinea, a large shrub with brilliant scarlet flowers, comes from the West Coast, where it is found growing wild on crags and the scrub.
Leaves of Ixora coccinea are oval, leathery, shiny and sessile. Individual flowers have a long tube and four triangular lobes. The plant flowers throughout the year but is floriferous after the rains.
The plant, if manured while in flower, produces more flowers. When flowering becomes less, the plant can be trimmed to make it look tidy.
The plant produces round berries that turn black when ripe. Ixora coccinea can be propagated through seeds, but it is easier to produce new plants through stem cutting or by layering.
It is cultivated all over the country and is called Techi in Malayalam, Vrichi in Tamil and Koranam in Telugu.
CHITRA RADHAKRISHNAN
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