KOPSIA FRUTICOSA 
KOPSIA J, Kops ( 1 76 5- 1849), a Dutch botanist, FRUTICOSA shrubby 
English name: 
Family : 
Country oj origin 
Colour : 
Pink Kopsia. 
Apocynaceae. 
Burma. 
Pink flowers with crimson 
eye. '> 
Garden use : a tall bushy shrub, rather slow 
in growth, needing full sun, 
flowering almost always in 
Singapore. 
Propagation : by woody cuttings (seeds rare 
in Singapore). 
A, longitudinal section through throat of flower- 
tube, showing crown-shaped stigma (lower 
part receptive) and above it the anthers 
which discharge their pollen inwards. 
B, base of flower, showing sepals with a gland 
on each. 
C, ovary with base of style and 2 horn-like 
honey-glands . 
D, longitudinal section of ovary showing pendu- 
lous ovule. , 
