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Ixora calycina is a shrub or small tree from Sri Lanka and southern India, related to the common garden ixora, and rarely grown outside its native wet tropical range. It needs warm, humid conditions and bright light to flower well.
Ixora calycina is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. It is endemic to Sri Lanka.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ixora calycina by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
