Luculia gratissima Sweet

Shrubs or small trees, to 5 m tall, with thin pale brown bark; branches somewhat flattened to subterete, pilosulous [to glabrous], sometimes with sparse elliptic lenticels. Petiole 0.8-2 cm, pilosulous to glabrous; leaf blade drying papery or thinly leathery, elliptic, lanceolate-elliptic, lanceolate, or elliptic-oblong, 5-15 × 2-6 cm, adaxially glabrous, abaxially pilosulous at least along principal veins, base cuneate or acute, apex acute to acuminate; secondary veins 8-12 pairs, sometimes with pilosulous domatia; stipules lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 6-8 mm, glabrous to strigillose, acute to acuminate. Inflorescence corymbiform, many flowered, villosulous to pilosulous; peduncle 2-3 cm; branched portion 3-5 × 6-8 cm (not including corollas); bracts linear to narrowly ligulate, 4-7 mm, acute; pedicels 4-5 mm. Calyx glabrous to densely hirtellous; ovary portion obovoid, 3-4 mm; lobes lanceolate, oblanceolate, or narrowly ligulate, 10-16 mm, acute. Corolla red, outside glabrous; tube 30-50 mm, slenderly cylindrical; lobes suborbicular to broadly elliptic, 11-12 × 12-15 mm, rounded. Capsule 1-2 × 1-1.5 cm, pilosulous to glabrous; seeds 2-3 mm, spongy-reticulate. Fl. and fr. Apr-Nov.

Can be grown by cuttings.