Talk:Woodfordia fruticosa

Botanical description

Fully-grown leafy shrub is long up to 3.5m and having long and spreading branches with fluted stems. The bark is smooth and characteristically cinnamon brown in color, peels off in fibers, the young shoots and terete, often clothed with fine white pubescence. The leaves are opposite or sub-opposite. Flowers are bright red, innumerable, arranged in dense axillary paniculate-cymose clusters, with short glandular pubescent pedicles. The calyx is striated, long, covered with glandular dots, with a small bell-like base and slightly curved with the bright red tube that contracts above the included capsule. The petals are slightly longer than calyx-teeth. Petals are extended at the apex to a long fine point. The fruits are small capsules, ellipsoid and membranous. Fruits are usually irregular dehiscent and splitting the calyx near the base. The seeds are brown, numerous, smooth, shining, angular and obovate Durvamaram (talk) 03:51, 21 January 2025 (UTC)