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|familia=Nyctaginaceae
| name = ''Mirabilis''
|genus=Mirabilis
|Min ht metric=cm
|Temp Metric=°F
| image_caption = ''Mirabilis jalapa''
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| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
|image=Mirabilis jalapa ja01.jpg
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
|image_width=240
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
|image_caption=Mirabilis jalapa
| subdivision_ranks = Species
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'''''Mirabilis''''' is a genus in the family [[Nyctaginaceae]], perhaps the best know genus in the family. Its most famous species is ''[[Mirabilis jalapa]]'', the Four-o'clock flower. Also see ''[[Mirabilis longiflora]]''.
'''''Mirabilis''''' is a genus in the family [[Nyctaginaceae]], perhaps the best know genus in the family. Its most famous species is ''[[Mirabilis jalapa]]'', the Four-o'clock flower. Also see ''[[Mirabilis longiflora]]''.
Although best known as [[ornamental plant]]s, at least one species, ''[[Mirabilis expansa]]'', mauka, is grown for food.
Although best known as [[ornamental plant]]s, at least one species, ''[[Mirabilis expansa]]'', mauka, is grown for food.
== External links ==
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* [http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=120783 Mirabilis in the ''Flora of North America'']
Mirabilis (The old name was Admirabilis, meaning wonderful, strange; shortened by Linnaeus to Mirabilis). Nyctaginaceae. Interesting flower-garden herbs.
* [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=3537&lvl=3&p=mapview&p=has_linkout&p=blast_url&p=genome_blast&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=1&unlock NCBI Taxonomy Browser]
The fls. have no corolla, but the calyx is colored and tubular and exactly like a corolla in appearance. The fls. are surrounded by a leafy involucre, and sometimes (as in M. Jalapa) only 1 fl. is borne in an involucre, simulating a corolla in a 5-cleft calyx; stamens 5 or 6, as long as the perianth, their filaments united at the base; style 1, with a capitate stigma: fr. hardened, caps.-like and indehiscent.—About a dozen species in the warmer parts of Amer.; or twice that number if Oxybaphus is included. The species of Mirabilis are perennial herbs, although grown as annuals from seeds, with lvs. petioled and opposite, and fls. solitary or paniculate and nearly or quite sessile in the involucres.
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==Cultivation==
===Propagation===
===Pests and diseases===
==Varieties==
*''[[Mirabilis coccinea]]''
*''[[Mirabilis expansa]]''
*''[[Mirabilis jalapa]]''
*''[[Mirabilis longiflora]]''
*''[[Mirabilis multiflora]]''
*''[[Mirabilis nyctaginea]]''
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==References==
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381 -->
<!--- xxxxx *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432 -->
<!--- xxxxx *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608 -->
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