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Hibiscus boryanus |
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| New flush of growth, June 2019 |
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| Just purchased, November 2018 |
Common name |
Chinese hibiscus |
Family |
malvaceae |
Life cycle |
shrub (Z9b-11) |
Flowers |
red |
Size |
to 8' |
Light |
sun |
Cultural notes |
ordinary garden soil, not too dry |
Evergreen shrub grown for its flashy red flowers. The leaves on young plants resemble bird's feet, but mature plants have typical hibiscus leaves. Quite frost-tender, so it may not live long and prosper even in subtropical Houston. It spent its first winter in its pot, sheltered on our patio, and wasn't too happy about it; by early spring, I set it out in the garden, where it continued to sulk through summer, before finally putting on a new flush of growth in early summer. The following couple of years it did fine, growing very slowly but steadily, not coming close to blooming. Alas, the megafreeze brought on by winter storm Uri in Feb '21 killed our plant at long last. I wish I had seen more of its mature habit, but that's gardening for ya.
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| A little more growth by late summer 2020 |
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This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away... About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following commentsNoel Hall | May 09, 2021 | Hi Rob this is a rare endangered hibiscus from the Mascarene Islands and the normal firm only has small single leaves and I grew mine from seed and half of the seedlings had single leaves and the other 6 plants had bird feet leaves so think this birds foot type maybe even rarer in its native habitat and I live in Brisbane Australia |
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