#253 They called me Ixora coccinea, also known as Ixora shawii, Ixora coccinea var. hermannii, and Ixora eekhautii. I pay homage to the male botanists Paul Hermann, Eekhaut (I couldn’t find his records), and George Shaw, Henry Shaw, or Herbert Kenneth Airy Shaw. They first catalogued me in 1753.
Categories