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Aesculus pavia, known as red buckeye or firecracker plant (formerly Pavia rubra), is a species of deciduous flowering plant.The small tree or shrub is native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States, found from Illinois to Virginia in the north and from Texas to Florida in the south. [2]
Cornus florida, the flowering dogwood, is a species of flowering tree in the family Cornaceae native to eastern North America and northern Mexico. An endemic population once spanned from southernmost coastal Maine south to northern Florida and west to the Mississippi River. [ 4 ]
Hamelia patens is a large evergreen perennial shrub or small tree in the family Rubiaceae, that is native to the American subtropics and tropics. Its range extends from Florida in the southern United States to as far south as Argentina. [3] Common names include firebush, hummingbird bush, scarlet bush, and redhead. In Belize, this plant's Mayan ...
Ixora is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. [1] It is the only genus in the tribe Ixoreae. It consists of tropical evergreen trees and shrubs and holds around 544 species. [2] Though native to the tropical and subtropical areas throughout the world, its centre of diversity is in Tropical Asia.
Ixora coccinea (also known as jungle geranium, flame of the woods or jungle flame or pendkuli) is a species of flowering plant in the family Rubiaceae. [1] It is a common flowering shrub native to Southern India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. It has become one of the most popular flowering shrubs in South Florida gardens and landscapes.
Shrub. Cornus amomum is a deciduous shrub growing to 5 m (16 + 1 ⁄ 2 ft) tall. The leaves are opposite, up to 10 cm (4 in) long and 7 cm (2 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) broad, oval with an acute apex. The flowers are produced in cymes. The fruit is a small blue drupe.
They are back “after an absence of 35 years,” officials say.
The flowers are typically red, orange, or yellow, or any combination of those colours, and are aggregated in inflorescences that are spikes or panicles (thyrses). The main pollinators of the flowers are bees, hummingbirds, sunbirds, and bats. The pollination mechanism is conspicuously specialized.