- 🌿 Botanical Name
- Hamelia patens
- 👨👩👦 Family
- Rubiaceae.
- 🗣️ Vernacular Names
- Fire bush, Vidarapoovu.
- 🌼 Flowering – Fruiting
- More or less throughout the year.
- 🌍 Distribution
- Native of Tropical America.
- 💡 Status
- Least Concern.
Description: Large shrub. Leaves simple, in whorls of 3 or 4, elliptic-ovate to oblong. Flowers scarlet-orange, in helicoids cymes. Fruit globose berry.
Uses: Commonly cultivated in gardens.