TREE IXORA 
“TREE IXORA (I. macrothyrsa). More 
spectacular than the common I. coccinea 
(which I can furnish), this plant makes a 
small tree to 10 feet with bold foliage and 
big heads of crimson flowers. It is in 
bloom much of the year and should be 
grown in every South Florida garden. 
*JAVA IXORA (I. javanica Syn. I. 
stricta). Corner says this is a shrub or, 
in the forest, a treelet to 20 feet with 
flowers all the year. The blunt petals 
typically are yellow changing to red, but 
clear pink in some varieties and yellow 
ochre in others. The plant is easily dis- 
tinguished from other Ixora by the leaves 
which are up to 10 inches long by 34 
wide. _ 
*PINK IXORA (I. rosea). Beautiful 
shrub with bright pink flower heads. New 
introduction, 
*RHODESIAN VIOLETTREE (Secur- 
idaca longipedunculata). This is one of 
the world tropics’ beautiful flowering trees 
that is almost unknown in Florida. Some- 
times just a shrub but more often a tree 
15-30 feet, with smooth almost white bark, 
this tree bears a great profusion of pretty 
violet to rose-colored flowers which per- 
fume the whole neighborhood with a de- 
lightful violet-like scent. Dr. Pole-Evans 
who collected seed of this for me in East 
Africa, wrote: “It is most ornamental when 
in flower and also when covered with its 
winged seeds. It likes sandy soils.” The 
spreading clusters of flowers at the branch 
tips, are sometimes purple, or even vari- 
egated with white. Steedman adds: “A 
fair sized tree, usually growing in clumps 
in stony places. Flowers coming out with 
the leaves in October (Southern Rho- 
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desia). The timber is hard and durable, 
borer-proof, and therefore many of these 
beautiful trees have unfortunately been 
destroyed.” Dutton says: “Flowers strong- 
ly scented, both in appearance and in 
perfume resembling violets. Owing to its 
extremely long taproot, it is most difficult 
to transplant; and it is not easy to grow 
from seed. Drought and ant resistant. 
Hardy.” This tree is closely related to the 
Puerto Rican violet tree (Phlebotaenia 
cowelli) which grows in my garden but 
fails to thrive; perhaps some day it will 
get established. 
Credi “Album Flori 
LOPHANTHERA 
*LOPHANTHERA (UL. _ lactescens). 
Even the Brazilians have no common name 
vet for this new small tree from the Am- 
azon region although it is widely planted 
now in parks, avenues and _ gardens. 
Hoehne calls it “a marvelous tree’ and 
adds: “The trunk is tall and slender and 
the beautiful crown fairly drips with long 
clusters of yellow flowers of the most 
decorative effect.” In Brazil the tree 
blooms in the Spring months of August 
and September. 
CONOSTEGIA (C. xalapensis). Beau- 
tiful foliage marks this Costa Rican awk- 
ward evergreen tree, the leaves light green 
on top, whitish chocolate below, and bear- 
ing quantities of small pink flowers. 
