Jungle geranium, flame of the woods, scarlet jungleflame or pendkuli, Ixora coccinea. Great-flowered scarlet ixora, Ixora grandiflora. Native of India and China, raised by John Clowes at Broughton Hall, Manchester. Handcoloured engraving by Frederick William Smith after a botanical illustration by Samuel Holden from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 3, Orr, London, 1837.

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