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Ixora pavetta
Ixora pavetta, the torch tree, is a plant in the family Rubiaceae. This species is found in South Asia. The species is commonly seen in Ballari district of Karnataka, India. People use the branches of this tree for making walls and paste with mud for their thatched huts in villages, but now this practice has become obsolete owing to modern housing materials.
Summer is the fruiting season and the fruits are globose, 2-seeded, become black when ripened. Indian sloth bears eat the fruits and the seeds are dispersed through its scat.
The species is native to tropical regions of South Asia and grows mainly in wet tropical biomes. It occurs in forests and moist habitats and is distributed in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and the Nicobar Islands.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ixora pavetta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
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.
