Guess what berries

Anyone know what shrub these berries are from.Answer at end of post , no cheating now.




Any guess yet
I'll give you another piccy.

Now the berries are ripe..



How about one moe piccy before you give in.

HERE IS A BIG CLUE ,SEE THE LEAF .




OK HERE'S THE PICCY OF THE SHRUB.






Its my Pink Ixora with seed berries.Have never noticed berries in it till now .Faye was chasing a Cairns birdwing butterfly to take its pic. and naturally it would not settle,then she noticed the seed berries.
Did you guess before the pics of IXORA APPEARED.

No I had no idea Gwen.. Fancy that I never knew it grew berries
I thought maybe a Lily Pilly of sorts but the end sticking out put me off.
Gee you learn something new every day here...

MA I never would not have guessed it either , never knew Ixora had berries ,when Faye showed me a little stem with berries on that she had picked I wanted to know where she got them.
I wonder if anyone else has had berries on their Ixora.s.

I dont have one at present, but I had a lovely orange one once and I dont remember any berries on it.
Just goes to show how much I dont know about some plants..

I've never seen berries on mine. I'll make sure I check when it has finished flowering.

Thanks for that info, Gwen..I didn't know about the berries.

Gail wrote:

I've never seen berries on mine. I'll make sure I check when it has finished flowering.

Does anyone else find that they seem to be perpetually in flower? Mine seem to be always with bloom...are they odd? Is so..I love them for the fact.

I miss mine for that reason Fay this is one plant I will be replacing.
There are plenty of crappy plants in my garden I would not miss at all..
Actually I may get two as there are so many different colours or shades of colours.

I used to have 7 different Ixora but only have 3 left , the pink one pitured grows tall ,Ihave dwarf light pink,good to keep tip pruned.and the old fashioned Prince of Orange which Isee everywhere cut as a flowering hedge . I Ixora for that reason they are never without flowers.
I used to have a beautiful one called Ixora coxinia [really red] and very big heads of flowers , its a weeping type and needs to be in a show off position without competition. I intend to get one again.I also had a lovely one called NewGuinea Gold , big tight packed head of flowers ..
orange with yellow here on there in the flower head .I had a white one that suckered so much,drove me mad.there as so many new ones to choose from now.

We've got a couple but only one does much good here. The others are still less than a foot high after a couple of years. Hopefully if we keep on getting regular rain they might grow. Our big one flowers for most of the year except the very middle of winter. I had a look this morning and no sign of berries on the older flower stems but still lots of buds to open yet.

Sounds like I will have a very interesting time choosing two then..

MA Faye tells me the art gallery just planted dwarf Ixora along a narrow garden between the building and the footpath. She thinks they grow a mtere by a meter. they got orange and yellow
alternating the colours Th.ey should look good.

Oranges and Lemons sound like a good combination Gwen..