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BG controls four fields in the NCMA, including Hibiscus, Poinsettia, Chaconia and Ixora.
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Patches of native forest remain around the higher peaks, and are characterized by Metrosideros, Aleurites, Celastrus vitiensis, Myrsine, Ixora, Psychotria, Cantium barbatum, and Charpentiera.
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Common understory species include Pandanus aimiriikensis, Ixora casei, Eugenia cuminii, Osmoxylon oliveri, Manilkara udoido, Symplocos racemosa, and Cyathea lunulata.
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This closed canopy forest is dominated by Homalium acuminatum, with other common species including Canthium barbatum, Elaeocarpus tonganus, and Ixora bracteata.
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Being confined to the tropical coast, away from the centres of population, and flowering at a season when visitors avoid the north, the scented Ixora has so far remained uncommended.
Tropic Days 2003
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Ixora 2, Leea, which occasionally becomes arborescent.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Sarcanthus guttatus common, Apocynea fauce, 10-glandulata, Ixora, etc. Saul was not common, nor did I see one tree of any size; it commenced about the margin of the Toorai.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Being confined to the tropical coast, away from the centres of population, and flowering at a season when visitors avoid the north, the scented Ixora has so far remained uncommended.
Tropic Days 1887
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It blossoms in February and March with large erect compact clusters of flowers, varying in colour from pale-orange to scarlet, almost to be mistaken, on a hasty glance, for immense trusses of bloom of an Ixora.
Ramayana. English Valmiki 1866
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One plant, the Ixora, for instance, propagating itself undisturbed, will become a garden itself, trailing its red or orange blossoms from bough to bough till the forest glows with colour.
Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak Henriette McDougall 1851
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