Rubiaceae: flowers of the family
12 flowers on Phool that belong to the family Rubiaceae.
Arabian coffeeCoffea arabica
The white-flowered shrub whose beans make most of the world’s coffee
🇪🇹 Ethiopia and 4 more · Wildflower
Scarlet jungleflameIxora coccinea
A dense evergreen shrub with year-round scarlet flower clusters
🇮🇳 India and 6 more · Flowering shrub
Mussaenda
Tropical flowering shrubs and climbers grown for their ornamental blooms
Mussaenda · Wildflower
Mussaenda erythrophylla
A West African shrub with bright, colourful bracts and star-shaped flowers
🇬🇦 Gabon · Flowering shrub
Mussaenda philippicaAgboy
A tropical shrub with showy, petal-like bracts grown for gardens
🇵🇭 Philippines · Garden flower
Guettarda speciosa
A coastal shrub with fragrant white flowers found on tropical beaches
🇦🇺 Australia and 5 more · Wildflower
FirecrackerbushBouvardia ternifolia
A red-flowered shrub grown for its clusters of tubular blooms
🇲🇽 Mexico and 2 more · Flowering shrub
Ixora
Tropical evergreen shrubs with clusters of small, bright flowers
🇮🇳 India and 4 more · Garden flower
Tahitian gardeniaGardenia taitensis
A fragrant white flower woven into Pacific island garlands and oils
🇹🇴 Tonga and 1 more · Garden flower
Cape jasmineGardenia jasminoides
A glossy-leaved shrub with large, fragrant white flowers from East Asia
🇨🇳 China and 7 more · Flowering shrub
Gardenia
A fragrant white-flowered shrub from tropical regions worldwide
🇨🇳 China and 6 more · Flowering shrub
KadambaNeolamarckia cadamba
A tropical tree with fragrant orange globe-shaped flowers from South and Southeast Asia
🇮🇳 India and 7 more · Flowering tree
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Gardenia: Queerbubbles, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Arabian coffee: Marcelo Corrêa, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Scarlet jungleflame: UpstateNYer, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mussaenda: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Mussaenda erythrophylla: Tatiana Gerus, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mussaenda philippica: Oeropium, CC BY 3.0, source
- Guettarda speciosa: MargaretRDonald, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Bouvardia: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Ixora: Wilfredor, CC0, source
- Tahitian gardenia: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Cape jasmine: Alpsdake, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Kadamba: This work was made by Tushar Hossain and released under the license(s), CC BY-SA 4.0, source