Vesalea floribunda

Vesalea floribunda, also known as Mexican abelia, is a species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae. It is a shrub native to southern Mexico, ranging from central Veracruz to northern Oaxaca and southeastern Chiapas.
Growing to tall and broad, it is a semi-evergreen or evergreen shrub with shiny ovate leaves and clusters of tubular cerise flowers to long. The flowers bloom year-round except in the spring. It fruits year-round except May and June.
Its natural habitat is mixed pine and oak forests and on rocky outcrops at elevation.
Two varieties are accepted.

Vesalea floribunda var. floribunda – central Veracruz to northern Oaxaca and southeastern Chiapas
Vesalea floribunda var. foliacea – southeastern Chiapas

Though hardy down to, it prefers a sheltered location, for instance against a south-facing stone wall.
It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.