Lovely color and pictures, of flower at its prime, nice catch. is this the sp used to get the hybrid "Black" hibiscus a couple of decades ago?
I dont have the old gardening clippings now... there was craze back then to produce black roses, hibiscus, etc On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 5:35 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > *Alyogyne* *huegelii* (Endl.) Fryxell > Lillac Hibiscus > > This genus is not represented on our website, distinct from Hibiscus in > flowers being usually blue in color (rarely orange or white), style 5-lobed > at tip and epicalyx 3-6 lobed. > > Evergreen subshrub to shrub up to 2 m tall; stem stellate hairy when > young; leaves alternate, blabe 2-7 cm long, 5-7 lobed, with irregularly > toothed lobes; flowers generally lilac-blue, sigly in leaf axils, 7-10 cm > across; epicalyx lobes 6, linear, shorter than calyx, persistent; calyx > stellate hairy; petals obovoid, overlapping; anthers in upper 2/3 of > filament tube; style 5-lobed at tip; fruit a capsule, 2 cm long, ovoid, > 5-chambered with many seeds. > > Cultivated in pots and beds, Sunnyvale California. > > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://www.gurcharanfamily.com/ > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "efloraofindia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Usha di =========== -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "efloraofindia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to indiantreepix+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to indiantreepix@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
