Malvaviscus
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Read about Malvaviscus in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Malvaviscus (Greek, sticky mallow). Malvaceae. Shrubs and tall herbs, a very few of which are cultivated for ornament. Usually hispid: lvs. alternate, entire, dentate, angled or lobed: fls. red, usually on axillary peduncles; petals erect and connivent or spreading in the upper half; column of stamens long and slender, exserted, only partially fertile: carpels fleshy outside, connate into a berry, later becoming dry and separating: involucel of 7-12 narrow bractlets.—Species 10 or 12, sometimes tree-like, in Trop. Amer., one reaching S. U. S. There is one species of gardens, M. arboreus, known to the trade as Achania Malvaviscus. It is a fine old greenhouse shrub with erect scarlet fls., which resemble an abutilon and never open widely. (Abutilon, however, has no involucre.) The old Malvaviscus arboreus is one of the most satisfactory house-plants. It is not subject to insects of any kind, will stand a low temperature in winter, and blooms both winter and summer. When pot-grown, the plant is usually about 2 feet high, but outdoors it makes a strong branching growth, attaining 3 to 5 feet. The bright scarlet flowers remain a long time in perfect condition. The flowers open slightly at the top or not at all. This circumstance gave rise to the old name Achania. which means "not gaping." The plant needs a good light soil and thrives in a compost of fibrous peat and loam. Propagated by cuttings. The cultivator need not fear the appearance of white grains on the surface of the leaves, as they are a normal waxy secretion of the plant.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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