Common name: Chinese Lantern
Family: Malvaceae
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Country of Origin: Brazil
Description: This specimen is a yellow/green variegated cultigen of garden origin - A. darwinii x A. pictum;
Usually glabrate, soft-woody shrubs; leaves unlobed or 3-5 lobed, green or variegated; flowers mostly solitary, on lon elongate axillary peduncles, often nodding, calyx to about 1 inch long, petals to about 2 inches long, in various shades and patterns of white, red, yellow, and orange.
Uses:
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USDA Zone: 9b
Source: UConn Floriculture
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Prefers winter dormancy with temps around 60F and reduced water, though never completely dry.
Classification:
- Division: Magnoliophyta
- Class: Magnoliopsida
- SubClass: eurosid II
- Order: Malvales
- SubOrder:
- Family: Malvaceae
- SubFamily: Malvoideae
- Tribe: Malveae
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