Cultivated
An evergreen shrub or small tree ; up to 2 . 5–5 m tall . Stems erect , branched , woody , green , cylindrical , with simple , scarbid or stellate hairs or glabrous . Leaves alternate , simple , unlobed , usually green , ocassionaly reddish , ovate , acute tip , serrated margin , glabrous ; petiole 0 . 5-2 cm long ; stipules ca . 5-12 mm , linear , subulate , ovate or foliaceous . Inflorescences solitary , in leaf axils ; pedicel ca . 1-7 cm , slender , sparsely stellate pilose . Flowers large , bisexual , symmetrical , typically red with a variety of colours including white , pink , orange , peach , yellow , blue , and purple ; epicalyx bracts c . 1 cm long ; calyx green ; petals 5 , 10 cm in diameter , erect to spreading ; staminal tube longer than petals . Fruit capsule , ca . 2 . 5 cm long , subglobose , dehiscing loculicidally , glabrous or hairy . Seeds many , reniform or subglobose , smooth , sparsely pilose . (Ref . POWO ; 2023) .
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Not Evaluated (NE)
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis var. genuinus Hochr.
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Hibiscus
China Rose
Chinese hibiscus
Hawaiian Hibiscus
Rose Mallow
Shoeblack Plant
Not used traditionally.
*Ghazanfar, S. (2003). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.1: Piperaceae – Primulaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 25). ISBN 90-72619-55-2 ISSN 0779-2387. *https://en.wikipedia.org *Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
