Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In message .com, Mike
Lyle writes

I twice had these die on me after a year or so of rapid flourishing.
IIRC, the first was the type (if it has a type) [...]

The cultivated shrubby Lavateras are mostly hybrids, and as such there
isn't a wild type. The taxonomic type, used when Cheek formally
described Lavatera x clementi, is a specimen of Lavatera x clementii
'Rosea', which is the original and commonest variety.
[...]

Many thanks for that, Stewart: I've often wondered what it was, vaguely
thinking it must be olbia.

--
Mike.