Egyptian Stars

Thanks mayra

Thanks little rex*

Beautiful!!!

@PaoloCo, I already suggested it. It's scientific name is Pentas lanceolata, from the family Rubiaceae (the coffee family). This is also a food plant for a hawk moth (idk, which one specifically, but one of my professors/teachers brought a hawk moth caterpillar from a Pentas plant.)

Ok so its an egyptian stars plant. But any idea of the scientific name?

Yes, good work Little Rex. I guess the genus name refers to the five petals.

I'm pretty sure it's an Egyptian Starcluster/Egyptian Stars plant. We have a lot of these in the University I am in. Usually I call them Pentas flowers though.

Ill check that

Looks somewhat like Ixora sp. In fact this site http://www.photosbyjanuary.com/2010/12/i... calls it that. But yours and theirs has 5 petals per flower, and the Ixora I am familiar with has 4 petals...