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Bouvardia ternifolia

(Hummingbird Flower)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Firecracker Bush, Firecrackerbush, Hummingbird Flower, Scarlet Bourvardia, Scarlet Bouvardia, Trumpetilla

Description

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Family Rubiaceae

The Rubiaceae are trees , shrubs , or infrequently herbs comprising about 450 genera and 6,500 species, including some lianous forms. The leaves are simple and usually entire, and are opposite or sometimes whorled ; stipules are present and interpetiolar . The flowers are nearly always bisexual and actinomorphic , often heterostylous, and usually are in cymose inflorescences. The calyx is mostly somewhat reduced and 4-5-lobed or sometimes the lobes are obsolete or rarely one of them greatly expanded and brightly colored . The sympetalous corolla is mostly 4-5-lobed, occasionally with 3 or up to 10 lobes. The androecium consists of as many stamens as corolla lobes and is adnate to the corolla tube or epigynous zone, alternate with the lobes. The gynoecium consists of a single compound pistil of 2 or seldom more carpels, a single style, and a nearly always inferior ovary with the number of locules equaling the number of carpels, each with 1-many axile ovules. An epigynous nectary disk is usually present. The fruit is variable, sometimes forming multiples . -- Gerald Carr.

Physical Description

Flowers: Bloom Period: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. • Flower Color: red-orange

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 24-36" tall.

Biology

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Growth

Culture: Space 18-24" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 7.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

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Unambiguous Synonyms

  1. Bouvardia angustifolia Kunth
  2. Bouvardia coccinea (Andrews) Link
  3. Bouvardia endlichii Loes.
  4. Bouvardia glaberrima Engelm.
  5. Bouvardia hirtella Kunth
  6. Bouvardia hirtella var. quaternifolia (Dc.) Rothr.
  7. Bouvardia houtteana Schltdl.
  8. Bouvardia hypoleuca Benth.
  9. Bouvardia jacquinii Kunth
  10. Bouvardia jacquinii var. exogyna Dc.
  11. Bouvardia jacquinii var. ovata Dc.
  12. Bouvardia linearis Kunth
  13. Bouvardia microphylla Schltdl.
  14. Bouvardia orizabensis Standl.
  15. Bouvardia ovata A. Gray
  16. Bouvardia quaternifolia Dc.
  17. Bouvardia scabrida M. Martens & Galeotti
  18. Bouvardia splendens Graham
  19. Bouvardia tenuiflora Schltdl.
  20. Bouvardia ternifolia var. angustifolia (Kunth) B. L. Rob.
  21. Bouvardia tolucana Hook. & Arn.
  22. Bouvardia triphylla Salisb.
  23. Bouvardia triphylla var. angustifolia (Kunth) A. Gray
  24. Bouvardia triphylla var. splendens (Graham) Lindl.
  25. Bouvardia viperalis Schltdl.
  26. Carphalea pubiflora Moç. & Sessé ex Dc.
  27. Houstonia coccinea Andrews
  28. Ixora americana Jacq.
  29. Ixora ternifolia Cav.


Notes

Publishing author : Schltdl. Publication : Linnaea 26: 114 1854 Publishing author: Hook. & Arn. Publication: Bot. Beechey Voy. 427. Publishing author: Hort.Berol. ex Schltdl. Publication: Linnaea 26: 97 1854 Publishing author: Graham Publication: Bot. Mag. t. 3781 Publishing author: M .Martens & Galeotti Publication: in Bull . Acad. Brux. xi. (1844) 237.A tentatively accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Publishing author: A.Gray Publication: Pl. Wright. ii. 67. Publishing author: Standl. Publication: in Publ. Field Mus. Nat. Hist., Chicago, Bot. Ser., viii. 334 (1931). Publishing author: Schltdl. Publication: Linnaea 26: 112 1854 Publishing author: H.B. & K . Publication: Nov. Gen. Sp. [H.B.K.] iii. 383. Publishing author: Benth. Publication: Pl. Hartw. 288. Publishing author: Schlecht. Publication: in Fl. des Serres, Ser. I. x . (1854-55) 149. Publishing author: Loes. Publication: Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 18: 357 1922 Publishing author: H.B. & K. Publication: Nov. Gen. Sp. [H.B.K.] iii. 384. Publishing author: Lindl. Publication: Edwards's Bot. Reg. 26: tab. 37 1840 Basionym author: (Graham) Publishing author: A.Gray Publication: Syn. Fl. N. Amer. 1, pt . 2: 24 1884 Basionym author: (Kunth) Publishing author: B .L.Rob. Publication: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 45: 405 1910 Publishing author: DC. Publication: Prodr. (DC.) 4: 365 1830 [late Sep 1830] Publishing author: Rothr. Publication: Rep. U.S. Geogr. Surv., Wheeler 6(Botany ): 137 1878 [1879] Basionym author: (DC.) Name Status: Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: Govaerts R., 11-Nov-2003

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Bouvardia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 96 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

B. bouvardioides · B. capitata · B. castilloi · B. cataphyllaris · B. chlorantha · B. chrysantha · B. conzatti · B. conzattii · B. cordifolia · B. corymbiflora · B. crocata · B. davisoni · B. deamii · B. dictyoneura · B. domestica · B. erecta · B. ferruginea · B. flos · B. flos var. joannis · B. glaberrima · B. glabra · B. gracilipes · B. gracilis · B. 'Green Spring' · B. 'Green Summer' · B. heterophylla · B. hintoni · B. hintoniorum · B. hogarthi · B. humboldtii · B. hybrida · B. jacquini · B. jasminiflora · B. 'Jourhite' · B. karwinskyi · B. laevis (Bouvardia) · B. langlassei · B. leiantha · B. 'Lichtrose' · B. loeseneriana · B. longiflora (Sweet Bouvardia) · B. longiflora pink · B. longiflora red · B. lottiae · B. macdougallii · B. macrantha · B. multiflora (Trumpet Flowered Bouvardia) · B. oaxacana · B. obovata · B. oriana · B. pallida · B. pedicellaris · B. pungens · B. purpusii · B. quaterniflora · B. quinquenervata · B. rekoi · B. rosea · B. rosei · B. 'Roxane' · B. 'Royal Chloe' · B. 'Royal Daphne Darkpink' · B. 'Royal Daphne Red' · B. 'Royal Daphne Supreme' · B. 'Royal Daphne White' · B. 'Royal Edith' · B. 'Royal Giselle' · B. 'Royal Janette' · B. 'Royal Jolanda' · B. 'Royal Nicolette' · B. 'Royal Renate' · B. 'Royal Silvia' · B. 'Royal Suzanne' · B. 'Royal Valesca' · B. 'Roya Claudia' · B. rzedowskii · B. scabra · B. scandens · B. standleyana · B. subcordata · B. tenuifolia · B. ternifolia (Hummingbird Flower) · B. 'Torosa' · B. triphylla · B. umbellata · B. versicolor · B. viminalis · B. viticella · B. vreelandi · B. xestosperma · B. xylosteoides · B. × domestica · B. x domestica 'Royal Daphne' · B. x domestica 'Royal Janette' · B. 'Zywerden' · B. domestica

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Further Reading

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  • Annales botanices systematicae. Auctore Guilielmo Gerardo Walpers. Lipsiae, Sumtibus F. Hofmeister, 1848-68. LAT url p. 127.
  • Breviora. Cambridge, Mass., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University. ENG url p. 20.
  • Flora, Tehuacán Valley [by] C. Earle Smith, Jr. Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1965. ENG url p. 114.
  • Just's botanischer jahresbericht. Systematisch geordnetes repertorium der botanischen literatur aller länder. Berlin, Gebr. Borntraeger, 1874-98; GER url p. 274, p. 310.
  • Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston: Metcalf and Co., 1846-1958 ENG url p. 405.

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Data Sources

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Last Revised: 2009-08-03