Hibiscus is a mallow family, Hibiscus plants original name: Hibiscus, alias: hibiscus flowers, refused to frost flowers, wood lily, hibiscus, Chinese wood, drunken hibiscus, Latin name: Hibiscus mutabilis Linn. mallow family, Hibiscus deciduous shrubs or small trees, pedicels and calyx are densely covered with stellate hairs mixed with straight hairs of fine woolly hairs. Leaves broadly ovate to circularly ovate or cordate, apex acuminate, obtusely crenate, sparsely covered with stellate fine hairs and dots above, densely covered with stellate fine tomentum below; flowers white or reddish at first bloom, then dark red, ca. 8 cm in diameter, petals suborbicular, sparsely covered with hairs. Capsule depressed globose, covered with yellowish bristles and woolly hairs, seeds reniform, abaxially villous. Flowering period August-October. Hibiscus flowers large color, for China's long cultivated garden ornamental plants.

Basic Information

Chinese Name

Hibiscus

Borders

Botany

Phylum

Angiospermae

Subphylum

Dicotyledonous plants

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