Can you identify this plant?

http://www.geocities.com/sativa_reaper/plant

Thanks

Trev

It looks like a double flowered shrubby Hibiscus hybrid. Unless by some
chance the fruit prove it to belong in some other allied African Malvaceous
genus. Cannot see the arrangement of the stamens and stigmas from the
picture and that is often distorted in double flowered cultivars anyway..

http://www.meden.demon.co.uk/Malvace.../galleryL.html


Trev wrote in message
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Can you identify this plant?

http://www.geocities.com/sativa_reaper/plant

Thanks

Trev

How about the double flowered form of Hibiscus mutabilis? It is commonly
called the "Confederate Rose" and is said to be an old favorite in the
"South". (but I don't think they meant South Africa.) The species is named
for its changable flower color.

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/e...pdate/nov01/ar
t8nov.html


http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog...ail/01126.html



Cereoid-UR12 wrote in message
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It looks like a double flowered shrubby Hibiscus hybrid. Unless by some
chance the fruit prove it to belong in some other allied African
Malvaceous
genus. Cannot see the arrangement of the stamens and stigmas from the
picture and that is often distorted in double flowered cultivars anyway..

http://www.meden.demon.co.uk/Malvace.../galleryL.html


Trev wrote in message
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Can you identify this plant?

http://www.geocities.com/sativa_reaper/plant

Thanks

Trev

You're absolutely right. This is the Confederate Rose of the "South". Around
here in South Carolina, these plants form huge clumps and grow 8-10' tall.
The plants bloom in late Sept until frost. Freezing temps cut them to the
ground and they regrow the following year. There are different forms from
lightly to heavily doubled and white to dark pink. It's an old timey
favorite regaining in popularity.

"Cereoid-UR12" wrote in message
gy.com...
How about the double flowered form of Hibiscus mutabilis? It is commonly
called the "Confederate Rose" and is said to be an old favorite in the
"South". (but I don't think they meant South Africa.) The species is named
for its changable flower color.


http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/e...pdate/nov01/ar
t8nov.html


http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog...ail/01126.html



Cereoid-UR12 wrote in message
m...
It looks like a double flowered shrubby Hibiscus hybrid. Unless by some
chance the fruit prove it to belong in some other allied African
Malvaceous
genus. Cannot see the arrangement of the stamens and stigmas from the
picture and that is often distorted in double flowered cultivars
anyway..

http://www.meden.demon.co.uk/Malvace.../galleryL.html


Trev wrote in message
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Can you identify this plant?

http://www.geocities.com/sativa_reaper/plant

Thanks

Trev

Where have you been, Iris?

Its already been identified as Hibiscus mutabilis, the "Confederate Rose".

I suppose with your being a "damn Yankee" and all, you wouldn't know
that!!!!


Iris Cohen wrote in message
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Well, I would definitely place it in the Malvaceae. Since the flowers are
double, I doubt if it is not a cultivated garden plant run wild. Some sort
of
mallow or hibiscus.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40

On Fri, 9 May 2003 12:10:08 +0200, "Trev"
wrote:

Thanks very much to "V_coerulea" and Cereoid-UR12 for your responses and to
those others who took time to have alook at the pictures on the website.

Thank *you* for such an excellent presentation of the plant. It
certainly looks interesting. I imagine if the flowers change and
wither in just a few days, it wouldn't make a good cutting flower, but
seems like it would be nice floated in a bowl for a dinner
centerpiece.

Thanks very much to "V_coerulea" and Cereoid-UR12 for your responses and to
those others who took time to have alook at the pictures on the website.

Trevor

"Frogleg" wrote in message
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On Fri, 9 May 2003 12:10:08 +0200, "Trev"
wrote:

Thanks very much to "V_coerulea" and Cereoid-UR12 for your responses and
to
those others who took time to have alook at the pictures on the website.

Thank *you* for such an excellent presentation of the plant. It
certainly looks interesting. I imagine if the flowers change and
wither in just a few days, it wouldn't make a good cutting flower, but
seems like it would be nice floated in a bowl for a dinner
centerpiece.

Glad you enjoyed the pictures.

Trev

Well, I would definitely place it in the Malvaceae. Since the flowers are
double, I doubt if it is not a cultivated garden plant run wild. Some sort of
mallow or hibiscus.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)